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     American Purchasing Society

The Society was the first organization to establish certification for buyers and purchasing managers. Join thousands of others who have improved their purchasing careers by earning the American Purchasing Society's certification recognition award.

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     Array Development

Provides a variety of relevant Internet links for purchasing professionals.

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     bestofstores.com - Office Products and Services

bestofstores.com is another site maintained by Krislyn Corporation. It offers products and services for the office in addition to products in many other categories.

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     BidNet

Links vendors to state and local governments. They receive bids from more than 6,000 agencies and notify vendors that subscribe to their service of bids that match with their products or services.

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     Businesstown.com

Offers purchasing-related articles and Internet resources.

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     CAPS

The Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies (CAPS) is a non-profit, independent research organization co-sponsored by Arizona State University College of Business and the National Association of Purchasing Management. Its mission is to help organizations achieve competitive advantage by providing them with leading-edge research to support the evolution of strategic purchasing and supply management.

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     CCSI - Credit Card Solutions, Inc.

Premier product is purchasing card software called "The P-Card Solution", enterprise client/server-based software that automates the entire purchasing card process, from card application, order placement, and product receipt through transaction reconciliation, record retention, and auditing.

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     Direct Link USA

An interactive database linking you directly to the Purchasing, Procurement, and Materials Management departments of states, counties, cities, universities, and corporations.

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     DollarDays.com

A virtual warehouse of over 100,000 available products. Products can be purchased by the case at discounted pricing from many categories and sub-categories.

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     Federal Acquisition and Subcontract Management Group

Federal Acquisition and Subcontract...

Network on governmental control of the procurement and subcontract management process and your influence on its dominance.

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     Government Procurement Magazine

Targets upper-level, public-sector purchasing officials through articles that cover best practices, projects, and methodology, as well as opportunities for professional growth.

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     NDP Group

Market research company that tracks consumer purchasing and behavior of business industries.

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     Innovative Purchasing Resources

Provides free articles about purchasing topics and links to related websites.

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     links2eprocurement.com

Daily eProcurement news. eMarkets, useful tools and a forum for all eProcurement professionals.

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     MNI Guide to U.S. Manufacturers

Online purchasing resource with Free, easy-to-use searchable database of 443,000 U.S. manufacturers and industrial suppliers. Search across more than 10,000 product categories and geographically across all 50 States. Endorsed by the American Purchasing Society.

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     Nahabit & Associates, Inc.

Producers of seminars for Purchasing & Supply Management.

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     National Association of State Procurement Officials

A non-profit organization through which member purchasing officials provide leadership in professional public purchasing, improve the quality of purchasing and procurement, exchange information, and cooperate to attain greater efficiency, economy, and customer satisfaction.

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     National Association of Educational Buyers

Dedicated to the advancement of excellence in the purchasing profession serving higher education and associated communities.

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     National Institute of Government Purchasing, Inc.

The National Institute of Governmental Purchasing provides its membership with education, research, technical assistance and networking opportunities in public purchasing; while promoting excellence, enhancing effectiveness and increasing public trust. A nonprofit educational organization dedicated to helping governments manage tax dollars wisely

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     Purchasing A2Z

Contains links to purchasing and electronic commerce resources.

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     procuri.com

Efficient procurement that offers buying leverage. Invite your suppliers to a competitive reverse auction environment using dynamic bidding. No-risk purchasing that offers extraordinary savings in both time and money.

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     Purchasing Management Association of Canada

A national, not-for-profit association, PMAC is Canada's leading source of education, training and development in the purchasing and supply management field.

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     The Purchasing Network

Resource for professionals in the purchasing industry. Information on purchasing management, e-commerce, on-line buying, purchasing agent, purchase orders, cost analysis and materials management

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     The Purchasing Research Service

The independent purchasing research service for purchasing and supply chain professionals worldwide.

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     Thomas Regional

The internet's most comprehensive source of industrial purchasing information on 480,000 manufacturers, distributors, and service companies.

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The small business version of Business Week online. They provide the most up to date news on small business.



The website for Inc. magazine. A great resource for the growing company.



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One-stop internet browsing for business, trade, and economic information.



The website for entrepreneur magazine. A great resource for the entrepreneur in all of us.



Provides tax information for small businesses and entrepreneurs.



This site is an extremely useful resource for entrepreneurs. It allows you to sift through information on starting, growing, and supporting your business.



This site is a vast resource for small business research in the all areas. News, publications and information concerning white papers are Also available on this site.