The Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) was at 50.9 in March, up from 50.1 in February, official data showed.
In April gave up chief executive spot, appointing Fabian Mansson, a 33-year-old amateur rock musician and former purchasing manager.
The CFO believes that the purchasing manager is leaving money on the table.
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China's Shanghai Composite rallied 1.8% after the manufacturing purchasing manager's index rose to 53.3 in April from 53.1 in March.
The Dow was up 80 points before pulling back after the Institute for Supply Management's purchasing manager index fell last month.
Non-manufacturing purchasing manager index for March rose 1.1 percentage points to 55.6.
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Far too often corporations remove the payment decision from the purchasing manager.
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It irked Galli that a Rubbermaid purchasing manager had a cozy friendship with a supplier of manufacturing tools for its factory in Wooster.
Retail sales fell in October, while purchasing manager surveys in the region showed private-sector business activity declined in November, amid reduced consumer spending.
It irked Galli that a Rubbermaid purchasing manager had a cozy friendship with a supplier of manufacturing tools for its factory in Wooster, Ohio.
Anxious to extol the virtues of his latest starter design, the general manager of our factory that produced starters lobbied me for a separate block of time to discuss his new design with the purchasing manager of one of our largest diesel engine customers who happened to be attending our quarterly meeting.
Have your sales manager look at purchasing practices.
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Yet, in the last seventy-five years, the U.S. dollar has lost 92 percent of its purchasing power, according to money manager Chris Davis of Davis Advisors.
Mr. SILVIO PIETROLUONGO (Chart Manager, Billboard Magazine): Back when 45 singles were the mode of purchasing choice, record labels really released one song physically, you know, every few months.
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