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Access insights, expertise and data analytics on the world's commodity prices and the key factors that drive them.
More than 75% of procurement professionals believe input cost, productivity and supply-demand analysis are critical for supplier negotiations, yet fewer than 40% possess this insight. We can help. We deliver 10-year price forecasts with award-winning accuracy and deep insight into your suppliers' cost structures. Our commodity and category price coverage includes 500,000+ historic prices, 4,000+ forecasts, costs and wages, and 200+ cost models across 60 geographies and our solution allows you to optimize your global footprint and select the best partners and partner countries.
Our team has helped 12,000+ clients save more than $1 billion in aggregate and can help you with:
Contracting – Negotiate contract escalation clauses based on our escalation rates
Supplier cost insight – Assess supplier quotes based on input costs and market fundamentals
Benchmarking – Track prices to evaluate purchasing performance
Budgeting – Prepare budgets and financial reviews based on accurate forward-pricing data
Timing Buys – Monitor prices, pinpoint the best times to make key purchases
How we can help you time your buys with precision, fine-tune your buying performance, and favorably negotiate purchase contracts.
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Manufacturing wages, construction and mining wages, industry-specific wage rates, skilled versus unskilled occupations, productivity, exchange rates and more.
Solving critical sourcing and procurement challenges
Time Buys
Identify the best time to purchase raw materials, locking in favorable prices today, to avoid prices increases later.
Benchmark Costs
Evaluate costs, market conditions, regional price differences in order to take advantage of tactical market opportunities.
Estimate Costs
Gain valuable market intelligence to quantify key inputs, examine critical supply issues, and more effectively estimate a project’s final cost.
Evaluate Pricing
Negotiate forward pricing contracts for improved cost planning, analysis, and savings over the life of a contract.
Identify partners and sourcing locations
Understand the stability and reliability of your current strategic sourcing partner countries, discover new strategic sourcing partner countries, and set diversification rules around your strategy.
Experts
John Anton
John has expertise in the ferrous metals industry, he is
responsible for evaluating the outlook for steel. He also
specializes in forecasting commodities and works closely with the
Automotive, Construction, Energy and Economics teams at S&P
Global Market Intelligence. Steel demand is linked to outlooks from
these key sectors. In turn, the profitability of these sectors can
rise or fall depending on the price and availability of steel.Prior to joining S&P Global (now part of S&P Global) in
1995, he was in the private practice of law as well as an economist
and statistician for the United States Department of Labor in the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).John received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Florida
State University, US, and a Juris Doctor from the Marshall-Wythe
School of Law at the College of William and Mary, US.