• Government Purchasing Sites
• Education Institution Purchasing Sites
• Purchasing Organizations
• Information Resources
• Purchasing Products & Services
• Purchasing Department HomePages
• Purchasing Consulting Services
• NEWS
• Purchasing Seminars & Training
• Purchasing Careers
• Surplus Equipment Exchange

Government Purchasing Sites

• State of Florida Purchasing Info Center
• State of Maine - Div. of Purchases
• State of North Carolina Purchasing
• Virginia, Roanoke Co...Procurement Services On Line
• Washington State Purchasing
  
  
• Queensland Purchasing Procurement Resource Centre
  
  
• National Purchasing Institute
• National Institute of Government Purchasing (NIGP)
  
  
• State, Provincial (Canada), & Pacific Rim Purchasing Links
• The Procurement Assistance Jumpstation...Awesome links to nearly all Fed. sites
• Federal Acquisition Jumpstation...more great Fed. Procurement links
• FedWorld Information Network...Federal Government documents
• Chambers of Commerce
  ...search worldwide & local
• White House Home Page
• United States Postal Service - Purchasing
• DOE...United States Dept of Energy
• FTC...Federal Trade Commission
• United States Dept of Justice
• United States General Services Admin
• OSHA...United States Occupational Safety & Health Admin
• NIST...National Institute of Standards & Technology

Education Institution Purchasing Sites

• University of Akron Purchasing
• University of Alaska
• Arizona State University Purchasing
• University of California Irvine
• University of California San Diego
• Carnegie Mellon Purchasing Services
• John Hopkins University Purchasing
• Indiana University's Purchasing Dept.
• McMaster University Purchasing
• University of Michigan
• New York University Purchasing...has other purchasing links
• North Carolina State University
• University of Pennsylvania Acquisition Services
• Portland State University
• Rutgers University Purchasing
• San Jose State University
• Stanford University
• Univ. Texas, Austin - Purchasing
• TVI Purchasing HomePage
• University of Utah
• University of Wisconsin, River Falls Purchasing
• Public Procurement Research Group, University of Nottingham School of Law

Purchasing Organizations

• NAPM Home Page
• NAPM Arkansas
• NAPM Bay Area (Texas)
• NAPM District II
• NAPM New Orleans
• NAPM Rochester
• NAPM Utah
• NAPM Wichita



• Int'l. Federation of Purchasing & Materials Management
  
  
• Council of Logistics Management-- Organization of logistics management
• International Facility Manager Association
  
  
• Missouri Association of Public Purchasing..Ch.3 of National Inst. Gov't. Purchasing
• National Institute of Government Purchasing (NIGP)
  
  
• Purchasing Management Association of Canada
• Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply UK
• Institut du Management de l'Achat Industriel (MAI) - French postgraduate program
  
  
• American Marketing Association
• Brazos Valley Public Purchasing Association

Information Resources

• Proposalworks
• Purchasing SuperSite
• Solutions Consulting Group - Info Resources
• Accounting Linksite...includes some good Purchasing links
• Dennis' Purchasing Links
• Krislyn's Favorite Purchasing Sites
• The Procurement Resource Journal
  
  
• Outsourcing Suppliers
• Thomas Register Supplier Finder
• Hoover's Company Name Search
• Industry Net...business & industry directory
• ComFind Internet Business Directory - global business directory
• SuperPages -- More than 10 million US business listings and 50,000 web sites
• Toll-Free Directory -- Search AT&T's 800 number directory
• Global Yellow Pages -- some overseas business listings
• Internet 800 Search
• Area Code Lookup
  
  
• Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply UK...links to European info purchasing info sources
• CETRA (China External Trade Dev. Council...non-profit gov't sponsored purchasing assistance in Taiwan
• Net Trade International...directory with some int'l sources
• Swedish Trade Council...assistance finding Swedish suppliers
• WIZNET...millions of actual catalog pages from thousands of vendors worldwide (by subscription)
  
  
• The Purchasing Manager's Forum / Knowledge Exchange
• European/Int'l. Logistics & Purchasing Forum
• NAPM - Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies
• Global Procurement Supply Chain Benchmarking Initiative
  
  
• Journal of Internet Purchasing..the latest in using the Internet as a purchasing tool
• Purchasing Today magazine - NAPM
• Purchasing Magazine



• Uniform Commercial Code
• STAT-USA -- US Department of Commerce Statistics
• Census Bureau -- Demographics
• The Producer Price Index
• The Consumer Price Index
• Commerce Net -- web sites with annual reports and company information
• D&B...business snapshots
• FTC...Federal Trade Commission
• SEC Database of Corp Info
• Institute of Management & Administration (IOMA) -- info source
• NAFTA Information Resources
• International Chamber of Commerce
  
  
• TravelWeb -- help for travelers
• MapQuest...interactive Atlas
• United Parcel Service (UPS)
• US Postal Service -- zip codes and postal rates
• Federal Express -- Check the status of your packages
• Map Locator Service -- Receive a map of any location
• OOCL International Shipping Services...shipper's HomePage
  
  
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• American Chemical Society
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• ANSI...American National Standards Institute
• ISO...International Organization for Standardization
• APQC...American Productivity & Quality Center
  
  
• Reference Information -- dictionaries, newspapers, magazines, & encyclopedias
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Kids Web References...not just for kids
• Excite References
• The Internet Public Library
• Library of Congress
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Purchasing Products & Services

• Grainger Business Catalog...online catalog of MRO supplies
• Packaging Mall
  
  
• Teubner & Associates...software for Internet access to mainframes (EDI)
• Ambac Connect...(formerly Advanced Procurement Systems)..purchasing, inventory, and EDI software
• PurchasingNet...software for using Internet in Purchasing & Accounting applications
• P.O.Writer Plus software
  
  

Purchasing Department HomePages

• Brother International Purchasing HomePage
• Reynolds Metals Company...Corporate Purchasing

Purchasing Consulting Services

• Global Procurement Group
• Solutions Consulting Group
• Global Procurement Supply Chain Benchmarking Initiative
  
  
• Public Technology, Inc....purchasing & tech research & consulting for local, state, fed gov't
• National Institute of Government Purchasing
  
  
• International Purchasing Services...temporary purchasing pros & consulting

NEWS

• CNN Interactive
• Wall Street Journal
• New York Times
• PR NewsWire
• Pathfinder
• USA Today
• PBS

Purchasing Seminars & Training

• Global Procurement Group
• Nahabit & Associates Purchasing Seminars
• NAPM Satellite Seminars
• Solutions Consulting Group - Seminars
• Resource Management Institute

Purchasing Careers

• CareerPath...searches newspaper employment ads from majorr cities
• Jobs Listing Jumpstation...comprehensive links to job sites
• College Grad Job Search...includes other useful info for 1st timers
• Federal Jobs Available
• Online Career Center...big listing
• Cargill Company...private firm's employment opps
• Purchasing Careers at FORD
• International Purchasing Services...temporary purchasing pros & consulting

Surplus Equipment Exchange

• Reynolds Metals Company...surplus sales
• J.R. Equipment Company, Inc....Mining & Heavy Equipment
• Recycler's World
• Used Equipment Network
• Used Equipment & Brokers
• Computer Recycling Project
• Hi-Tech Surplus
• Defense Reutilization & Marketing Service...Government WebSite