Here is the link:

http://www.industryweek.com/Media/whitepapers/NewProcurementStrategies.pdf

… consider Ireland, which has suffered an astonishing 16 consecutive months of price deflation. The Irish CPI fell by 2.1% year-on-year in April. This deflation action is beginning to make Japan's experience of the past 20 years look like a picnic because Ireland, unlike Japan in the 1990s, remains in fiscal contraction mode. Thus, the Irish government aims to reduce its deficit to 10% of GDP in 2011 and then to 2.9% in 2014 from 14.3% last year…

Others in the euro-zone will surely follow. Spain has potentially a huge deflationary cycle to endure given its level of consumer leverage and the degree of anticipated fiscal tightening. Spain's household debt-to-GDP ratio was 83% at the end of 2009, and Spain has to refinance €165 billion of maturing government debt by the end of 2011.

Buyers with fixed priced contracts – that thought they had a good deal – actual may not.

These risks are a multi-headed Hydra, ranging from natural and man-made disasters, transportation boondoggles and regulatory changes to political strife, labor strikes and technology failures. Other risk managers are similarly coping with enhanced supply chain risks in the wake of the financial crisis.

Over the weekend, I gave quite a bit of thought -- and had numerous conversations and e-mail exchanges with various colleagues -- to Purchasing Magazine's ...

Breaking Supply Chain News: Reed Supply Chain Publications said to ...

That deal apparently does not include Purchasing magazine, which was not part of the SCM group. If it does not find a buyer, it means the market will not at ...

Breaking Supply Chain News: Reed Publishing Shutters its Supply ...

... group (Supply Chain Management Review, Modern Materials Handling, Logistics Management and Material Handling Product News), plus Purchasing magazine. ...

Classical Values :: Purchasing Magazine Closing

Apr 21, 2010 by sarah-hoyt@sff.net
Reed Elsevier, parent company of Purchasing, announced today that it is closing Purchasing and the magazine's website, purchasing.com, as well as most of its other U.S. publications, effective immediately. ...
http://www.classicalvalues.com/

Purchasing Magazine folds | Supply, Cost & Procurement Management

Apr 16, 2010 by Peter Smith
Purchasing magazine and website ceased publication this week after 95 years (95 years!) Can't say I often looked at it; it was very US manufacturing based,
http://blog.procurement-excellence.com/

How will the closing of Purchasing magazine, purchasing.com ...

Apr 22, 2010 ... Magazine and website will close as part of major divestiture of parent ... announced today that it is closing Purchasing and the magazine's ...
www.govloop.com/xn/detail/1154385:Topic:847718?xg_source...

How can procurement groups forge more productive relationships with suppliers, particularly when recent cost-cutting programs have resulted in a "buyer vs. supplier" mentality?

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from Supply Excellence

Akio Toyoda said a key reason for Toyota Motor Corp.'s quality problems was an excessive focus on market share and profits among "some people" in the company, some of his bluntest words yet in assessing the flaws that led to widespread safety recalls.

Toyota's rapid expansion in recent years "attracted much praise from outside the company, and some people just got too big-headed and focused too excessively on profit," said the 53-year-old executive, a grandson of Toyota's founder.

Mr. Toyoda said the company's misguided strategic focus warped what he called the "order of Toyota's traditional priorities" in car making: a stress on product safety and quality first, sales volume and cost second. That order "changed" when Toyota began expanding rapidly a decade ago, and aggressively increasing market-share and cutting costs became paramount.

"There was a period we became too profit oriented," he said. Mr. Toyoda said he plans to ensure that Toyota restores the company's "traditional focus" under his watch—indicating he doesn't intend to step down himself over the quality problems.

These frank comments will help Toyota’s culture move quickly back to a customer and quality first focus.