Sourcing Strategies

Welcoming BravoSolution to Commodity EDGE: Sourcing (Real) Smarts + Technology

by Lisa Reisman on February 6, 2012

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MetalMiner is pleased to welcome Spend Matters Editor Jason Busch. We’re excited this week to welcome BravoSolution as a Bronze sponsor of Commodity EDGE. Lisa and I have worked with some of the BravoSolution team members going back over a decade and are thrilled they’ll be working with us to pull off a sourcing and [...]

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Triple Point Technology Joins ‘Commodity Edge’ as Gold Sponsor

by Lisa Reisman on January 23, 2012

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We have often written about what constitutes “popular content” on this site. It should come as no surprise that when we write pieces examining metal market direction and/or provide forecasting cues, traffic tends to increase. Uncertainty, underpinned by volatility, makes people question when they should buy, how much they should buy and even what they [...]

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The Big Mac Index: A Commodity Bellwether for Steel Buyers?

by Taras Berezowsky on January 19, 2012

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Currency exchange rate volatility — or more accurately, disparity, in this case — has been coming up a lot, and metal buyers who source globally may stand to learn something from the results of an unlikely index. You probably already know that (on paper or in practice) China, India, South Africa and Malaysia are, based [...]

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Indian Auto Companies Hit by Falling Rupee

by Lisa Reisman on January 19, 2012

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TC Malhotra contributes to MetalMiner from New Delhi. The impact of rupee depreciation on Indian auto companies is so high that many car- and car-parts makers are adopting various strategies to control their import costs. Upward trends in commodities prices have further burdened the auto firms and as a result, the pressure on margins has [...]

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No Twinkie Defense for Rising Commodity Costs – Hostess Files for Bankruptcy

by Lisa Reisman on January 12, 2012

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Having spent the better part of a day earlier this week attending a seminar on Effective Financial Management, led by Glenn Waring of Effective Organization (a great seminar, I would add) and re-learning how a company can calculate its “Z” score (defined as the likelihood of ending up in bankruptcy), I found it ironic reading [...]

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Sourcing Metal Categories in a Volatile or Collapsing Euro Environment – Part Two

by Lisa Reisman on January 6, 2012

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Continued from Part One. So what happens with volatile currency risk? Like commodities, currencies can move in similar ways – they can rise, fall and remain flat. In addition, a scenario we haven’t addressed previously with commodities involves establishing strategies in markets whereby prices, at least in the short term, appear to randomly rise and [...]

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Sourcing Metal Categories in a Volatile or Collapsing Euro Environment – Part One

by Lisa Reisman on January 5, 2012

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We love the month of January because everyone pulls out the proverbial crystal ball to wax prophetic as to where a particular commodity market may go. For a change of pace, I’ll leave the forecasting to my colleagues and instead, contemplate something that has bothered me immensely over these past few months – the notion [...]

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MetalMiner’s Sourcing Outlook for Commodities in 2012

by Taras Berezowsky on December 28, 2011

Style:    Category: Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Global Trade, Macroeconomics, Metal Prices, Minor Metals, Non-ferrous Metals, Public Policy, Sourcing Strategies, Supply & Demand

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Here’s the third episode of MetalMiner Sourcing Outlook, brought to you by Zycus. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZeGOlXDXxQ[/youtube] In this year-end episode, MetalMiner provides a look ahead to commodity markets in 2012, namely the steel, aluminum and copper sectors. In the One-On-One segment, Lisa Reisman and Stuart Burns discuss these markets in-depth, and give their takes on economic outlooks [...]

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