Alan Buxton’s e-Sourcing Place

Lisa Reisman over on Metals Miner has a rather more sophisticated analysis of reverse auctions in the current economic climate than most. Worth a read, but for the impatient (and click-averse), here’s the conclusion:

I would argue a reverse auction in a stagflationary environment can achieve benefits for the buying organization, more for further worked products containing metals than for semi-finished or raw materials. And though we still predict some prices to drop further this year, there is nothing like a reverse auction to show exactly where the market really is…