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Articles in July, 1999 issue of Purchasing

• Metal stampings.
• Update, consumer price index.
• Market update, paper production.
• Price update, nickel.
• E-commerce tackles direct production.
  by Vigoroso, Mark
• Buyers' guide to software for purchasing.
• Smart purchasing is key to outsourcing success.
  by AVERY, SUSAN
• World steelmaking continues to slide.
• Steelmakers still anxious despite drop in imports.
• Solid growth forecast for flash in 1999.
• AlliedSignal move causes major ripples in aerospace supply chain.
• CPI flashes brief warning.
• Independent office-supplies dealers look forward to the rest of 1999 with confidence and enthusiasm.
• AlliedSignal goes buy-side.
• World aluminum smelter output up in May.
• Carpenter Technology.
• Some steel tube shipments up.
• MetalSite expands e-commerce to steel plate from InfraMetals.
• Sandvik Steel.
• Sandvik opens steel unit for medical market.
• The computer industry's shift to selling systems and not just personal computers should trigger strong second-half sales.
• Companies that purchase the right to drill for natural gas can claim billions of dollars worth of methane gas found with coal under federal land.
• Average newsprint prices have plunged $40/ton since the first quarter.
• A $40 forms bond increase took effect in June.
• U.S. first quarter GDP growth estimate was revised down from an annual rate of +4.5% to +4.1%.
• Supplies of electric power should be better this year than last.(Brief Article)
• Don't miss the 1999 Purchasing Conference.
• Expect big increases in office rental rates in big cities.
• ELECTRONICS BRIEFS.
• Two 2/lb price hikes in PVC's future.
• Methanex sues over MTBE bans.
• Japan faces lengthier recession.
• Specialty polymers.
• Market forecast, networking.
• Market outlook, synthetic lubricants.
• Asian recovery may raise ocean shipping rates.
  by Milligan, Brian
• Government uses single source for PCs and support.
  by Gottlieb, Dan
• Will copper prices rise if BHP shuts U.S. mines?
• Firms give purchasing more central control.
  by Millen Porter, Anne
• Merrill Lynch, Global Minerals charged in 'copper crisis'.
• Is the electronics market tightening?
• 'Natural' products help lift demand.
• Asset management system adds requisition module.
• Help your supply chain compete!
• Visa: More buyers plan to start card program.
• Asarco.
• Transtar Metals.
• Copper demand falling in Europe as construction slows.
• Placer Dome's Cerro Casale.
• Brazil agrees to reduce HR imports to U.S.
• Specialty metals par excellence.
• AlliedSignal is buying Honeywell for $14.82 billion in stock, strengthening its aerospace business with the addition of Honeywell's control systems.
• The U.S. is poised to pass the Year 2000 milestone with minimal problems thanks to often costly and time-consuming fixes.
• A June price increase on envelope paper grades has flopped. Buyers think the mills will try.
• PMs predict strong second half, weak inflation.
• Expect air cargo capacity glut to continue.(Brief Article)
• Keep an eye on bill that would allow states to increase allowable truck weights by more than 20%.
• Expect intermodal upgrades at ports to continue for some time into future.
• Overall component tags fall.
• Producers call for 3[cent]lb increase.
• Hayes Lemmerz International opens new world headquarters.
• Plastic parts.
• Update, consumer confidence.
• Market forecast, cybershopping.
• Price increase, sheet steel.
• Demand keeps FLYING HIGH.
  by STUNDZA, TOM
• Prices stay stable despite margin pressure.
  by Reilly, Christopher
• Industry coalition wins rewrite on fastener quality.
• New aluminum output will dampen price increases.
• Slow growth depresses global CR sheet tags.
• NAERC says power capacity will be 'tight but manageable'.
• Acer Group and IBM have formed a technology alliance.
• Armstrong & Associates expands logistics guide.
• Electronic Purchasing for Business-to-Business Commerce.
• Online auctions focus on excess.
• Precision Castparts.
• Steel Dynamics Inc.
• Aluminum Outlook Forum on Sept. 2.
• OECD: World steel rebound is in sight.
• Altos Hornos de Mexico.

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