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Articles in March, 2004 issue of Purchasing

• Expect reinvigorated antitrust enforcement in the telecommunications sector.(Tip sheet: key metrics and supply alert)(Brief Article)
• Telecom rate shopping.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)(Telcombrokers )(Brief Article)
• Buyers' guide.(steel pipe & tube)(Directory)
• The steel bubble will burst.(inside purchasing)(Steel products)
  by Smock, Doug
• Electronics firm consolidates cross-border shipments.(Case study: Avnet)(Brief Article)
  by Hannon, David
• Growth in sales of printers and printer supplies is slowing.(Supply: what's happening in high-tech supply chains)(Brief Article)
• The semiconductor equipment market will experience "extremely robust growth" of 55% in 2004.(Supply: what's happening in high-tech supply chains)(Brief Article)
• Filters.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)
• Metal fabrications and assemblies.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)(Brief Article)
• Stonepath Group completed its acquisition of a majority interest.(Brief Article)
  by Hannon, David
• Nortel looks to divest.(Outsourcing)(Brief Article)
• Walter Metals Corp.(Metal Chips)(Brief Article)
• Ford raises eyebrows with new contracts.(Automotive Briefs)(Brief Article)
• Purchasingdata.com's 90-day copper & brass price expectations.(Prices: factors affecting product cost)(Illustration)
• The Semiconductor Industry Association wants the Chinese government to withdraw.(Tip sheet: key metrics and supply alert)(Brief Article)
• Six-sigma KOs costs: when it comes to defects, intolerance is good.(supply chain performance)
  by Porter, Anne Millen
• Study: OEM price cuts force more auto suppliers offshore.(Automotive Briefs)(Original Equipment Manufacturer)(Brief Article)
• Get smart on indirect buying at Purchasing's new On-Demand MRO Symposium.(Tip sheet: key metrics and supply alert)
• Look for DSP tags to fall despite growing demand.(Semiconductors)
• The European Union is investigating chipmakers.(Prices: factors affecting product cost)(dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips )(Brief Article)
• Recruiting/professional placement.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)(Brief Article)
• Electronic components sourcing.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)(Brief Article)
• Quanex Corp. of Houston, has completed its $115-million purchase of North Star Steel Co.'s special bar quality (SBQ) mill in Monroe, Mich.(Metal Chips)(Brief Article)
• Phelps Dodge to restart idled N. American capacity.(Copper)(Brief Article)
• International Energy Agency has renewed warnings of potential oil price volatility.(Prices: factors affecting product cost)(Brief Article)
• Add plastic resins to the list of commodity groups where price inflation pressure is now rated as strong.(Economy: how supply managers see high-tech business)(Brief Article)
• Material handling.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)(DLK Consulting Inc.)(Brief Article)
• Purchasing job opportunities.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)
• Don't count on big pay raises in 2004.(Economy: how supply managers see high-tech business)(Brief Article)
• Insiders expect drill tube, line pipe mart to reenergize.(Oil Country Tubulars)
  by Stundza, Tom
• Business telecommunications equipment buying may recover this year, or not.(Supply: what's happening in markets)(Brief Article)
• Sniffing out the hidden spend.(PPG Industries)
  by Hannon, David
• Corporate travel managers expect hotel prices and airfares to remain flat.(Prices: factors affecting product cost)(Brief Article)
• Emphasizing profitability.(Lucent Technologies)
  by Carbone, James
• Knobs, clamping & control.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)(Brief Article)
• Copperweld Corp.(Metal Chips)(Brief Article)
• Job stress costs U.S. businesses an average $300 billion annually.(Supply: what's happening in markets)(International Commission on Occupational Health)(Brief Article)
• Samsung Electronics Co., the world's third-largest mobile handset maker.(Tip sheet: key metrics and supply alert)(Brief Article)
• Aggregating data in real time.(Intel)
  by Carbone, James
• Switch market poised for recovery as prices stabilize.(Electromechanical)
• Purchasing awakens from lengthy slumber: but, the domestic steel pipe and tube market is expected to remain sluggish for a while.
  by Stundza, Tom
• The five keys strategic transformation: how to evolve the procurement function into a strategic asset--valued for its contributions to top-level objectives and the bottom line.
• If buyers can get what they need, they're paying for it.(Grassroots Report)
  by Stundza, Tom
• Purchasingdata.com's forward demand indicators 90-day.(Tip sheet: key metrics and supply alert)(Brief Article)
• Merrill Lynch analysts have increased the brokerage's 2004 personal computer growth forecast to 13%.(Supply: what's happening in high-tech supply chains)(Brief Article)
• OEM products.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)(Brief Article)
• Aluminum.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)(Brief Article)
• Rouge Steel.(Metal Chips)(Brief Article)
• Oshkosh Truck Corp. has named The Timken Co. its "Best Supplier.".(Kudos)(Brief Article)
• Wall Street analysts now expect the world aluminum ingot price for 2004 to spike.(Prices: factors affecting product cost)(Brief Article)
• Soaring prices for steel threaten the solvency of key contractors.(Tip sheet: key metrics and supply alert)(Brief Article)
• Half of companies use spend management analysis only sometimes and 14% use it infrequently or not at all.(Tip sheet: key metrics and supply alert)(Brief Article)
• Staying alive in an uncertain tube market.(Metals Perspective)(Atlas Steel Products Co.)
  by Burr, Lawrence J.
• Web highlights.
• The long and short on the impact of DHL-Airborne.(Small Package Market)
  by Hannon, David
• Chief executive Jan Johansson of Boliden.(Prices: factors affecting product cost)(Brief Article)
• Books, subscriptions, audio/video.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)
• Magnetic hand tools and conveyors.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)(Brief Article)
• DSP board market to grow to $760 million by 2008.(Circuit Boards)(Brief Article)
• Excelsior Steel Processing Ltd.(Metal Chips)(Brief Article)
• There was strong purchasing growth in 2003 for such storage devices as hard, optical and tape drives.(Supply: what's happening in markets)(Brief Article)
• Corporate earnings will be 11% higher this year than in 2003.(Tip sheet: key metrics and supply alert)(Brief Article)
• Electronics outlook stays strong.(Tip sheet: key metrics and supply alert)(Brief Article)
• Become world class in supply management.(Global Procurement Conference: April 20-21, 2004)
• Capacity transfer won't hurt DRAM supply.(Semiconductors)(Dynamic random access memory)(Brief Article)
• Buyers angry at suppliers, prices.(Exclusive Business Data)
• Cleaning up after Covisint: sale leaves automotive industry portal users to chart their own course.(Automotive E-Commerce)
• Web conferencing isn't a huge market yet.(Tip sheet: key metrics and supply alert)(Brief Article)
• Purchase orders to increase.(electronics business survey)(Brief Article)
• Alternative plastic materials "are becoming more attractive.(prices: factors affecting product cost)(Brief Article)
• Pipe, tubing, and specialty bar.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)(Brief Article)
• Building maintenance.(Key Supplier Web-Site Locator)(Brief Article)
• Base metals conglomerate Xstrata of Switzerland has merged its copper businesses into a single global copper business called Xstrata Copper based in Brisbane, Australia.(Metal Chips)(Brief Article)
• Oregon Steel adds capacity; reopens LTV tubular plant.(Steel Tube)(Brief Article)
• Substantial price hikes for ethylene could be triggered in coming months.(Prices: factors affecting product cost)(Brief Article)
• Software is the engine that makes the information technology industry run.(Tip sheet: key metrics and supply alert)(Brief Article)
• The case for holistic strategies.(Enabling Technology)
  by Porter, Anne Millen
• What's hot.(logistics)(Radio frequency idendification )(Brief Article)
  by Hannon, David
• Key supplier web-site locator.(ACC104A laboratory accelerometer)(Directory)
• What's hot.(metals)(market for oil country tubular goods)(Brief Article)
  by Stundza, Tom

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