Site Facilitates Online Pricing.The ability for woodworking businesses to conveniently and efficiently compare prices for supplies and equipment is just a click away. WHEN IT COMES to sourcing, most wood products manufacturers have the same problem: lack of time. Everyone wants to find the best deals on raw materials, machines and supplies, but who really has time? When you have jobs to turn out, you cannot dwell on dwell on or upon Verb to think, speak, or write at length about (something) Verb 1. dwell on - delay linger over the price of every part. This frequently happens with items of smaller value that may not warrant repetitive phone calls, faxes and e-mails with many suppliers. Instead of properly researching prices, these items are often purchased out of convenience. But unfortunately everything adds up. Chances are that you pay more for production items than you need to. Like most manufacturers, you are probably aware of this but do not have time to deal with it. A World Wide Web Solution You may use e-mail at work and may have a corporate Web site, but have you ever used the Internet for sourcing? A new Web site, WoodworkingSite.com, aims to streamline the procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. process by making it easier for wood products manufacturers to secure competitive price quotes from suppliers for both small and large production items. WoodworkingSite.com makes a purchaser's job easier by dramatically reducing the time it takes to communicate with multiple suppliers. Whenever you need to price an item, you can simply send an online request for quotes to several suppliers at once. You will spend the same amount of time finding prices from 30 suppliers as you would from one supplier. Here's How It Works Suppose you are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. melamine melamine (mĕl`əmēn'), common name for 2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazine. Melamine is a trimer (see polymer) of cyanamide, H2NC≡N, and is synthesized from calcium carbide. edgebanding. First go to www.woodworkingsite.com and register. Then, simply go to the product category listing for laminates/overlays: melamine edgebanding. Next, you will select the suppliers from the list that you want to receive your request for a quotation. You can decide if you want all current melamine edgebanding suppliers to get the request or just a few of your favorites. All supplier information is provided, such as names, descriptions, products and Web site addresses. Then, just fill out a simple form telling suppliers what you want, such as the quantity, size and description of melamine edgebanding. You should try to provide enough descriptive information so that your chosen suppliers can give you an accurate price. You can also include other details, including FOB FOB 1) adj. short for Free on Board, meaning shipped to a specific place without cost. 2) Friend of Bill (Clinton). (See: Free on Board) points and a deadline to receive prices. When you are finished, your request will be sent to suppliers with the click of a button. There are no technical skills required. If you can get to the Web site, you have all the skills necessary to use it. What Happens Next? After sending your request, WoodworkingSite.com gathers the quotes you receive from suppliers and automatically organizes them for you. You can compare quotes from your account at your convenience and reference them at any time, eves after business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a or on weekends from home. The quotes are presented in a format that makes it quick and easy to make an informed, hassle-free buying decision. You are not required to act upon any of the quotes you receive. But if you want to follow through with a certain quote, you can contact the supplier directly and proceed with business as usual. You will not buy any products right off the Web site since WoodworkingSite.com is not an online store and does not carry inventory. Instead, you will buy directly from the supplier without any third-party transaction fees or interference. A Few More Features All woodworking businesses are encouraged to post their excess inventory for sale on the Web site for other businesses to buy. Thus, you can find bargains by browsing the Web site for surplus abrasives abrasives Sharp, hard materials used to wear away the surface of softer, less resistant materials. Abrasives are indispensable to the manufacture of the highly precise components and ultrasmooth surfaces required in the manufacture of automobiles, airplanes and space , adhesives, components, fasteners fasteners In construction, connectors between structural members. Bolted connections are used when it is necessary to fasten two elements tightly together, especially to resist shear and bending, as in column and beam connections. , finishes, hardware, laminates, machinery, materials, tooling and more. A shipping service is currently in development that will enable you to request quotes from your current transportation companies for both incoming and outgoing shipments. This will allow you to reduce many shipping costs that are usually overlooked due to lack of time. There is no charge to request quotes and browse surplus listings on WoodworkingSite.com. Nor are there any commissions or transaction fees. Small, medium and large woodworking shops have plenty to gain and nothing to lose by visiting this Web site and registering to try out its services. Alana Wexler is co-founder and vice president of marketing for WoodworkingSite.com. She is schedu1ed to speak on the topic, "Using the Internet to Your Advantage" at e Texas Woodworking Machinery Expo & Conference. B-2-B Woodworking Sites Here is a quick look at a few e-commerce Web sites. The Dock www.thedock.com The Dock is an industrial equipment site that brings together thousands of service providers across 20 industries nationwide, including woodworking, online. e-Wood www.e-wood.com e-Wood connects buyers and suppliers in a central marketplace to expand markets and facilitate trade between levels of the distribution chain with a concentration on building materials Building materials used in the construction industry to create . These categories of materials and products are used by and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for . and hardwoods. ForestExpress www.forestexpress.com ForestExpress is a B-2-B marketplace for buying and selling forest products. Its initial areas of focus are building materials, printing and writing papers, recovered fiber and timber. Furndex.com www.furndex.com Furndex is an e-commerce site for sourcing, buying and selling in the furniture industry. It allows users to do business online with their current furniture partners and vendors and also with thousands of companies providing goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. to the industry. I-Com Industry www.i-comindustry.com I-Com Industry is an online auction site designed for high-value capital machinery and property allowing sellers to schedule searchable auctions with automatic future activation dates. The site has auctions for used or for sale woodworking machinery such as heavy machinery, industrial equipment or CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) See numerical control. CNC - Collaborative Networked Communication machinery. Onsrud Cutter cutter, small, one-masted sailing vessel, with a rig similar to that of a sloop except that it usually has a sliding bowsprit and a topmast. From 1800 to 1830 cutters were in service between England and France. www.onsrud.com Onsrud Cutter's site for buying industrial cutting tools. Router router Portable electric power tool used in carpentry and furniture making that consists of an electric motor, a base, two handle knobs, and bits (cutting tools). A router can cut fancy edges for shelving, grooves for storm windows and weather stripping, circles and ovals Bits on the Web www.routerbits.com Router Bits on the Web is an online dealer for cutting tools such as router bits, saw blades and forstner bits. Woodworkers can also buy books and videos, sharpeners and other accessories. Tablebases.com www.tablebases.com Tablebases.com offers table bases for sale, which can be ordered in any quantity. Users can pick from a variety of base styles for a range of different projects. Tooling on the Web www.toolingontheweb.com Tooling on the Web sells a variety of tooling equipment and accessories, including carving carving, n the shaping and forming with instruments. tools, slotting cutters, carbide carbide, any one of a group of compounds that contain carbon and one other element that is either a metal, boron, or silicon. Generally, a carbide is prepared by heating a metal, metal oxide, or metal hydride with carbon or a carbon compound. tipped cutters and tool holders. Veneernet.com www.veneernet.com Veneernet.com is a B-2-B Internet site serving the veneer veneer (vənēr`), thin leaf of wood applied with glue to a panel or frame of solid wood. The art of veneer developed with early civilization. and veneered products industries. It offers such services as veneer for sale with photos, bargain priced veneers and equipment buy and sell. Wisconsin Knife Works www.wkwinc.com Wisconsin Knife Works' site for industrial cutting tools. Woodfinder www.wdfindr.com Woodfinder connects buyers with suppliers and sellers of veneer, lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to , plywood plywood, manufactured board composed of an odd number of thin sheets of wood glued together under pressure with grains of the successive layers at right angles. Laminated wood differs from plywood in that the grains of its sheets are parallel. , laminates and sawmill sawmill, installation or facility in which cut logs are sawed into standard-sized boards and timbers. The saws used in such an installation are generally of three types: the circular saw, which consists of a disk with teeth around its edge; the band saw, which specialties. Wood Machinery Commerce woodmachinerycommerce.com Wood Machinery Commerce is an e-market -place for buyers and sellers of the woodworking industry. It includes trade shows from major machinery sellers and suppliers, a catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. of woodworking machinery and equipment and an auction for surplus goods. Woodworkingsite.com www.woodworkingsite.com Woodworkingsite.com is an online business-to-business exchange for the woodworking industry, bringing buyers and sellers together. |
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