Purchasing 02/10/2000 Table of Contents

Purchasing - February 10, 2000

AUTOMOTIVE/OEM

NEWS

BUYING ENERGY

With Order 2000, FERC pushes electric utilities to form RTOs

BUYING IN THE OEM

AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING

Pressure still on tier-one suppliers to cut costs

BUYLINES

Candidates upbeat on free trade, Congress may attack WTO, China

BENCHMARKING

Benchmarking is personal

GRASSROOTS BUSINESS SURVEY

Buyers ring in new year with substantial optimism

MARKET REPORT

Polyethylene prices may lose their momentum this year

MURRAY'S LAW

The writing requirement

REGULATION WATCH

Ergonomics proposal zeros in on assembly, manual labor jobs

SPECIAL REPORT

Economists say 'pipeline inflation' will fizzle in 2000

WASHINGTON PERSPECTIVE

Pols, agencies, lobbies itch for Internet governance role

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Finally: A graduate degree in purchasing

COMPUTERS PERIPHERALS & SOFTWARE

BRIEFS

PERIPHERALS SOURCING STRATEGIES

Direct model makes sense for monitors, says supplier

PURCHASING NOTES

STRATEGIES

Allstate leverages sourcing to better serve customers

CPI EDITION

LEADTIMES

BUYER'S NEWS

CORPORATE CHANGES
Buyers face rising prices, tight supplies
Steel drum tags start to rebound after tough year
Rising demand, prices forecast for 2000
Producers hike prices for both flake and liquid products
PRICE INCREASES

CHEMFORECAST

Prices will inch up this year

CHEMICAL TRANSACTION PRICES

Purchasing transaction price survey results
Buyers see index moving down, then up
Plastic resin prices

COST REDUCTION

How suppliers make money for PPG

SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE

Buyers are taking a deeper view
Praxair TARGETs performance improvement

Departments

Job Scene

Where are the Hottest Job Markets?

ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Buyers look to distributors for supply chain services

ELECTRONICS PURCHASING

TT Group buys BI Technologies
ELECTRONIC PRICES

CONTRACT MANUFACTURING

Celestica acquires IBM facilities
Contract manufacturers to buy more connectors
Solectron to buy more manufacturing plants
CM business rises 21.5%
Foundries drive fab equipment growth
TSMC gets bigger

ELECTRONIC BUYING CONDITIONS

Prices stay steady, but more report shortages
Connector tags rise

INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT

Ion dominates lithium battery market
Samsung to invest in Alpha microprocessors
Flash is no flash in the pan
Semiconductor market posts 17.6% growth
Disk drives aren't just for computers anymore
Bell Micro to sell IBM products
Gateway to use Athlon
Correction

PRODUCT UPDATE

Portable equipment moves to lithium ion cells

SEMICONDUCTORS

Expect strong growth, lower tags for DSPs

INSIDE PURCHASING

Supply chain lessons

JOB SCENE

Where are the hottest job markets?

METAL PRICES 2000

METALS

Automotive Metals

It's still steel's game to lose

METALS TRADING

Price hedging ready to explode

NEWS

METALS PRICES 2000

Tin prices going nowhere fast

MRO/DISTRIBUTION

NEWS

Internet creates new supply chains for MRO buyers

OFFICE PRODUCTS & BUSINESS SYSTEMS

BRIEFS

FACSIMILE MARKETPLACE

OFFICE SUPPLIES

Xerox cracks down on supplies counterfeiters

ON THE INTERNET

Internet enhances RFP/RFQ process

PRODUCT UPDATE

LIFT TRUCKS

Demand remains strong, prices will rise

PROCUREMENT CARDS

Growing a p-card program

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Baxter

PURCHASING HOTLINE

ECONOMY

The macroeconomic outlook for 2000 just keeps getting rosier

MARKETS

PRICES

PURCHASING SOFTWARE NEWS

Boothroyd Dewhurst updates concurrent costing software

RECYCLING RESOURCES

SUPPLY INSIGHTS

BUYING PLANS/PRICE EXPECTATIONS
LEADTIMES

FORECASTS

STRATEGIC COST INSIGHTS

Plastic pipe margins expand
NO HEADLINE

TRANSPORTATION

NEWS

SMALL-PACKAGE EXPRESS

Small-package express weathers Internet challenge

TRANSPORTATION NEWS

LTL rates expected to creep up in 2000

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