Weekly Pricing Pulse – a snapshot of headline prices indexes
- Weekly overview of historic price movements for 10 key industrial materials indexes
Monthly Commodity Price Watch – latest price pressures and market changes
- North American coverage for 40 key commodities – a two-year outlook
- Monthly newsletter provides analysis of price changes and the fundamentals driving key costs – energy, ferrous & nonferrous metals and chemicals prices
- Monthly PPT deck examines key trends impacting various markets
Market Insights – regular analysis of the pricing environment by sector and region. The ultimate source for understanding costs and improving supplier negotiations, comprehensive industry and geographic analysis provides:
- Segmented reviews of prices, supply, and demand by industry and geography
- Sourcing Guidance section with insight on timing buys for major commodities
- Dynamic tables outlining market conditions – economic outlooks as well as market drivers
- Analyst access to discuss latest market dynamics and price implications
Ten Year Forecasts updated quarterly – web-based data access allows for easy cost analysis and tracking
- Forecast of over 1,100 commodity prices and labor rates for US, Canada and Mexico - forecast are presented in Cost Analyzer and Excel spreadsheets on Connect.
- Historic price data for over 500,000 time series concepts – providing the most comprehensive historic trend pricing service on the market.
Major Forecast Sectors
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- Real-time reporting: Read updated analysis and commentary as data releases and events warrant
- Email alerts: Set up notifications for updates to categories of interest
- Rapid data retrieval: Access analysis and data in a single search
- Formatting/presentation tools: Format data by relevant indices and build customizable, presentation-ready graphs
- Flexible export: Export all forecast tables in multiple formats (Excel, PDF, PowerPoint)
- Automated content refreshes: Save searches and update content automatically
The Cost Analyzer – Puts the breadth of the Pricing & Purchasing commodity price coverage across 60 geographies at your fingertips. The Cost Analyzer allows for deep insight into past and future price changes so you can cut spending, assess your buying performance and favorably negotiate purchase contracts. Providing input cost breakdowns for over 300 commodity areas, the Analyzer enables clients to:
- Analyze/Alter/Combine individual data series relevant to your business questions in a dedicated workspace
- Export the data in refreshable Excel workbook or PowerPoint to plug into existing models, tools or applications for further analysis
- Perform margin analysis on supplier industries
- Customize or alter 500+ pre-built cost models to check the competitiveness of a supplier's price
Alloy Cost Calculator – allows quick, accurate assessment of metal alloy costs using the latest Pricing and Purchasing forecast. Understand cost breakdowns for almost 300 alloys and specialty steels for North America.
Polymer Cost Calculator – designed for plastics processors and end-users to estimate costs for specialized polymer compounds and blends using the latest Pricing and Purchasing forecast.
The Burden Wage Calculator – estimates fully burdened wages for over 400 US industries including the manufacturing and service sectors. This tool combines the latest price and wage forecasts from P&P with data from the US Census of Manufacturers to produce a time series of wrap rates as well as fully burdened wages. Using the calculator, users can customize industry wrap rates by state and occupation providing more insight into detailed industry labor and associated overhead costs.(Available as an add-on service.)
