Purchasing

Managing costs in a high-price era
The Handy & Harman Global Procurement Council has a game plan for 2005, and it's to retake the cost-control initiative lost to the 2004 price spike in raw materials. That's why supply management professionals gathered recently at corporate headquarters in Rye, N.Y., to reinvigorate cost-reduction strategies that include cooperation commitments from suppliers that go beyond simple price-redu...

• Distributors Grow globally
• Buyers look beyond price for savings
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• Managing the business services spend effectively
• Not just a cost-reduction tool

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