Business Management Commodity Purchasing? There’s No Such Thing Do you know all of the elements of the true total cost and total benefit for all of the products you put in your homes?
Manufacturers + Suppliers Relationships Can Shorten the Supply Chain In technology, over decades of management, there is a great deal of information and stakeholders have learned to use data to make decisions on supply chain visibility and inventory, which means it can be managed better.
Building Materials Who Can Shorten the Supply Chain for Home Building? Current supply-chain challenges serve to reveal new possibilities for supplying materials for new-home construction
Building Materials Lumber V: The Latest in a Decades-Long Dispute Over Lumber Despite a fall in lumber prices, costs are more than double pre-pandemic levels, but there remains a disagreement on why prices are so high...
Economics Federal Reserve Chair Says the Economy’s Future Lies in Lumber Lumber’s twists and turns resulting from the pandemic are Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell’s guide to the future of the U.S. economy....
Building Materials Lumber Prices Finally Cool as Demand Relaxes The demand for lumber from builders, remodelers, and at-home DIYers helped drive prices up to $1,600 per thousand board feet, but recent...
Building Materials Lumber Falls to Lowest Price Since March Lumber prices dropped 5% on Friday to the lowest price since March and 37% since prices hit a peak in May. Lumber futures decreased for the...
Construction Lumber Veteran Sees Holding Off on Construction as 'Sensible' A National Association of Home Builders’ survey found 19% of builders are delaying building in order to mitigate high lumber costs, and one...
Building Materials More Builders Report Material Shortages Now Than Ever Before More builders are reporting severe material shortages now than ever before, reports the National Association of Home Builders. The...
Purchasing 5 Tips for Dealing With 'Take It or Leave It' Ultimatums When Negotiating Follow these steps to successfully navigate a “take-it-or-leave-it” negotiation with suppliers and trades
