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- Purchasing
- the acquisition of goods and services needed to support the various activities of an organization, at the optimum cost and from reliable suppliers. Purchasing involves defining the need for goods...
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- Getting to Know the Decision-Makers
- Often a team of key staff people will have influence in choosing a supplier for a company. This decision-making team may include staff members from various departments such as purchasing, manufacturing, marketing, and finance, and each individual team member will have influence at different stages of the purchasing process.If you're...
- Articles 2007-05-08
- Purchasing is at the root of Scott's green efforts. (Scott Paper) (Company Profile)
- "One of our latest surveys finds 40% of purchasing operations nationwide do some sort of green buying: Some purchasing execs serve on committees that help set company-wide environmental policy; others receive in-house assistance from corporate environmental officials. Still others have had conservation and source-reduction activities added...
- Research articles 1994-10-20
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- Senate Investigates Hospital Group Purchasing Organizations
- Almost four years ago, we posted about the strange world of hospital group purchasing organizations GPOs. These organization purchase large volumes of medical products for member hospitals, but a "safe harbor provision" in federal law allows them to charge the vendors, not the hospitals for their services. In fact, it...
- News items 2009-08-14
- Web resources.(web sites from Purchasing magazine and Forrester Research)(Brief Article)
- Web site www.purchasing.com Host Purchasing magazine Written for buyers of electronics, chemicals, metals and MRO supplies, Purchasing magazine covers all the latest trends and issues...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Purchasing Card Best Practices For University Procurement
- According to Hanover Research's paper on Purchasing Practices in Higher Education, institutions are continually seeking ways to better manage purchasing and incorporate more efficient, cost-effective purchasing systems in order to save on both purchases and back-end support costs. Many institutions have found that a standardized, controlled purchasing system based on...
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Purchasing
- Purchasing is not a service function, but a profit making activity. Materials are a large part of total cost; procurement is best handled as a separate distinct function reporting directly to the top level operating executives. Real purchasing job starts long before the specifications or requisitions are written. The...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Purchasing Cards May get Boost from Internet
- Purchasing managers believe that the purchasing card is about to get a shot in the arm from B2B e-commerce. Article explains that the cards too often are given to and used by people who do not have purchasing backgrounds. They duplicate other purchasing efforts and offer little help when a...
- White papers 2001-01-11
- Best places to work.(for purchasing managers)
- Over the past several months the editors of Purchasing Magazine have queried readers, members of Purchasing's Editorial Advisory Board, purchasing recruitment professionals, and various other sources about what makes a company a good place to work Over the past several months the editors...
- Research articles 1998-12-10
- Move to China stirs interest.(International Business Machines Corp. relocates purchasing to China)
- Staff Hopefully not the wave of the future Regarding "IBM moves purchasing headquarters to China (Purchasing , June 15, 2006, p. 34): Is this just another loss of jobs to the lower-cost Orient? The purchasing profession...
- Research articles 2006-07-13
- Motorola leverages its way to lower cost: by placing purchasing under one umbrella, Motorola has reduced it supplier base by 20% and cut material and service costs by more than $500 million in one year.(purchasing strategy)
- Until last year, Motorola was reluctant to wield its purchasing clout with suppliers despite the fact that it buys about $18 billion of materials and services per year. For most of its 75-year history Motorola left purchasing up to its indivi...
- Research articles 2004-09-16
- Strike! Purchasing move leads to potential strike in Nissan's U.K. operations.(buylines)
- Purchasing staffers at a U.K. Nissan plant have voted to strike after the company failed to consult with members of the Amicus Trade Union over relocation of the plant's 70person purchasing department. Nissan U.K. plans to move its purchasing depar Purchasing staffers at a...
- Research articles 2004-02-05
- INTEL'S PURCHASING VOLUME INCREASED IN CHINA
- AsiaInfo Services 03-27-1998 Intel's Purchasing Volume Increased in China CHINA, March 27, AsiaInfo Services, Inc -- Recently, the Intel Co formally established the China branch of its International Purchasing Department. This purchasing bran AsiaInfo Services ...
- Research articles 1998-03-27
- SONY INT'L PURCHASING (SHENZHEN) LTD. STARTS BUSINESS
- AsiaInfo Services 11-19-2002 Sony Int'l Purchasing Shenzhen Ltd. Starts Business SHENZHEN, Nov 19, 2002 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Sony Int'l Purchasing Shenzhen Ltd. held its opening ceremony in Futian Bonded Zone yesterday. Sony Purchasing AsiaInfo Services ...
- Research articles 2002-11-19
- Get PURCHASING Magazine's exclusive economic data the same day we send it to Alan Greenspan. (Tip Sheet).
- Get PURCHASING Magazine's exclusive economic data the same day we send it to Alan Greenspan. The Federal Reserve Board follows PURCHASING Magazine's Lead-time Index, a tried-and-true predictor of turns in manufacturing industrial production since PURCHASING launched it in 1977. You can get the latest data points...
- Research articles 2001-12-13
- NAPM-Wichita Learns About Public Sector Purchasing
- The Wichita chapter of the National Association of Purchasing Management NAPM held its February meeting at the Wichita Airport Hilton on February 8th. The featured speaker was Iris Baker, purchasing director for Sedgwick county government. Baker, a 14-year purchasing veteran, also belongs to the National Institute of Government Purchasing, Kansas...
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- Parsons Brinckerhoff Aggregates spend and reduces purchasing costs with Epicor; Epicor procurement enables as much as 40 percent cost savings through on-contract purchasing and improved efficiency in purchasing process.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-3 May 2005-Epicor: Parsons Brinckerhoff Aggregates spend and reduces purchasing costs with Epicor; Epicor procurement enables as much as 40 percent cost savings through on-contract purchasing and improved efficiency in purchasing processC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03042005 IRVINE, Calif. -...
- Research articles 2005-05-03
- Best Tactics to Increase Program Growth: The Purchasing Card Benchmark Report
- This report highlights a study where purchasing card program challenges, priorities, strategies, and technologies were surveyed to provide program management parameters and best practices. Issues of program control to enable new business and cost reductions are presented along with additional ways to drive value from purchasing card programs. The report...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Private Health Purchasing Practices in the Public Sector: A Comparison of State Employers and the Fortune 500
- State governments are influential purchasers of health benefits but have not been studied extensively. This paper examines the extent to which states have followed the private-sector approach to purchasing health care. It found that states have adopted "Industrial Purchasing" practices similar to those of large private employers but offer greater...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Purchasing Clerk Job Description
- The Purchasing Clerk job description template includes the following job summary: This job is located in the Purchasing Unit of the Financial Department of the Company and is under the direction of an immediate supervisor. The Purchasing Clerk is primarily responsible for performing typing and clerical duties related to the...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Polaris points to purchasing for design help.(Polaris Industries Inc.)(Company overview)
- By Susan Avery At Polaris, purchasing collaborates with engineering and suppliers on product teams. They're looking for ways to build better products. Purchasing, engineering and suppliers are working more closely together at Polaris In ...
- Research articles 2007-02-15
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