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Check out the details below on this new survey by MetalMiner’s sister site, Spend Matters. This survey aims to examine the potential demand for supplier information and enrichment content primarily on...
View ArticleCoal and Mineral Mining Solutions: What Manufacturers Can Learn from ‘Pit To...
We at MetalMiner are always on the lookout for sourcing efficiencies in the industrial metals supply chain — and those who make said efficiencies their business. That’s one of the main reasons we chose...
View ArticleDefining a Strategic Sourcing Process For Middle-Market Firms
Every company has the ol’ time-honored step/”Chevron” process for strategic sourcing. MetalMiner Editor Lisa Reisman interviewed Olivier Maurandy, VP Business Development for Fullstep USA, to get his...
View ArticleWhich Spend Categories Too Big, Too Small In Sourcing Negotiations?
One of the biggest issues we see is companies going after everything — using the 80/20 rule, etc. — in optimizing their spend and streamlining their sourcing. MetalMiner Editor Lisa Reisman interviewed...
View ArticleThe Elements of a Good RFI in Strategic Sourcing
Everybody does an RFI in a sourcing process, and some of us at MetalMiner have personally been on the receiving end of some that include 235 questions or more — multiple spreadsheets, multiple tabs. So...
View ArticleForget the Baltic Dry Index – Take a Look at the Container Market
The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) usually steals the headlines when it comes to discussion of the world’s shipping fleets, and is often quoted when analysis of the global economy refers to international...
View ArticleContainer Shipping Crisis Between Germany and Greece?
Continued from Part One. According to the Telegraph, over 100 German ship funds have already shut down as the crisis in global container shipping comes to a head, while 800 more funds are threatened...
View ArticleAmazon.com: Shortening Supply Chain, Driving Warehouse Construction
If you’re like most of the rest of the country, your life was in some small or large part affected last week by the crush of shopping commercials, crowds and other B2C craziness that accompanies...
View ArticleMetal Buyers to Fight for Lower Ocean, Air Freight Rates
An article on the SDV Live logistics site on air and ocean freight rates may come as a surprise to consumers struggling to cope with freight costs arising from the Asian sea and air routes. Certainly,...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs Right and Wrong on Certain Aluminum Market Facts
MetalMiner has recently reviewed the news release issued by Goldman Sachs last week. Goldman Sachs makes a number of points of clarification with regard to its activities as a market maker and why it...
View Article3 Lessons For Industrial Metals Buyers from Fresh Food Supply Chain
These days, mitigating metal price risk takes a lot of outside-the-box thinking and strategy. That’s why we caught up with Kevin Brooks, chief marketing officer of FoodLink Holdings, Inc., to see...
View ArticleCongress Passes Water Bill Helps John Deere and Caterpillar
MetalMiner readers are not likely to pay too much attention to a Congressional water bill unless it somehow plays a role in the cost of moving steel or green tractors or heavy earth-moving equipment...
View ArticleStayin’ Alive Part One: Indian Steel Companies Resort to M&A to Keep Afloat
Despite bleak global conditions India’s steel industry was quite robust, thanks to its vast domestic appetite for steel, until recently. The double whammy of an economic slowdown and a ban on the...
View ArticleBuildings and Infrastructure Begin as Data, Not Steel or Concrete
Here at the BIM Forum in Boston, the latest in 3D architecture and construction technologies are being discussed, including big data and 3D reality capture – the process of capturing reality using a...
View ArticleCan 3D Design Finally Deliver Cost Certainty to Construction?
The construction industry has long been imperiled by what is known as the unique snowflake conundrum. Every building is different both designers and construction professionals say. You can't apply the...
View ArticleCME Group, MetalMiner Webinar Speaks to Aluminum Buyers’ Pain
It was an enlightening morning for attendees of the "Prospects for an All-In Contract & 2014 Metal Price Forecast" webinar as representatives from CME Group and MetalMiner addressed rising Midwest...
View ArticleBill Whelan is Back in the LME Warehouse Game With WF Whelan & Co.
Bill Whelan’s return to the metal storage market will be under a different environment than when he left. Public and regulatory scrutiny is much tighter and though the LME’s rule changes are having to...
View ArticleI, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords
Editor-At-Large Stuart Burns writes that robots and automation will change industries we would not consider to be candidates for automation today. With China and Japan purchasing more robots every...
View ArticleRio Tinto’s RoboTrucks Break New Ground with 200,000 Tons of Ore Moved
Last week we posted a slightly tongue in cheek article on the rise of robotics in modern manufacturing. Now, we've come across a real-life example where robots are having a material impact in the...
View ArticleQingdao Warehouse Scandal Opens Door for Western Warehouse Operators
Qingdao’s copper, aluminum and alumina scandal has thrown up an opportunity for western warehouse operators to cash in on financiers' and investors' desperation to find reliable alternatives, an...
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