It will someday be a wonderful and time-saving purchasing tool—unfortunately, that day is not today. I think your Net Sourcing publication, which helps educate buyers, is one of the few e-based information products that is on target with what is really happening. Good job.
David Luttenberger, CPP
Editorial Director
Packaging Strategies
E-procurement of complex goods
I read through your April edition cover to cover. We, too, are a company that needs to be led kicking and screaming into the new Internet world of procurement. This process won’t happen overnight, but it will inevitably happen. I like your publication and want to receive it and circulate it among our buyers.
For future issues, I would like to see some case studies demonstrating how businesses have used e-purchasing to succeed with items that are customized to suit the particular needs of the user. Most of my peers who are following e-purchasing want to see how it works for something more complex than catalog parts and generic, commodity purchases before they become converts to the concept.
Lane Burtz
VP, Purchasing
Mary Kay
Moving toward Web purchasing
Great supplement to a good magazine. We are slowly moving toward more Web-active purchasing, so I have forwarded April’s Net Sourcing articles on to our Director of Purchasing. Will the magazine be available with future issues of Packaging World or as a stand-alone piece? Either way, we are interested.
Steve Scott
Quality Assurance Manager
Carolina Biological Supply Co.
Editor’s response: Net Sourcing will be distributed four times next year as a supplement to Packaging World. Interested parties can also subscribe directly to the publication at www.netsourcingmag.com/subscribe. And the full text of every article will always be available in the searchable archives at www.netsourcingmag.com.
