With a database of more than 500,000 historic prices and thousands of price, wage and input cost forecasts, IHS offers more coverage than any other provider in the market. IHS has been providing forecasts of key commodity, labor, and input costs since 1970 -- helping define the purchasing advice industry.

1. What’s included?
Price Forecasts
4,000
500,000Historic Data Series
National and Regional level labour
market and demographic data
17,000+
Series with daily activity on US,
Canadian, European, and Asia-
Pacific spot, futures, and options
markets for industrial, energy,
metals & refinery products.
Years of collective experience. Benefit
from having an entire staff of economist
and industry analysts at your fingertips.
Detailed Producer’s Price
Indices at a manufacturing
and product level for the
global economy
415,000+
350+
27,000+
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Why IHS?
Consistently meet cost savings targets, increase spend
visibility, and mitigate risk to maximize profitability
In order to move the enterprise to the next level of sourcing and
procurement results globally and deliver cost savings, procurement needs guid-
ance and insight to build and execute sourcing strategies.
The IHS advantage:
• Standardize global procurement on a single, consistent pricing platform.
• Access 500,000+ historic prices and 4,000+ forecasts, costs, and wages.
• Powerful analytical tools IHS insight in your processes.
• Rely on recognized IHS experts to enhance capabilities of your talent.
• Quantify price change and price drivers across entire supply chains.
• Benchmark pricing performance to increase efficiency and visibility
What is the IHS advantage?
IHS is more than just a data provider. We deliver actionable insights
and a model-based framework for delivering value. Our team provides the most
robust and accurate insight, analysis, and forecasts available
on the market today.
Comprehensive data and
analysis to cover all of your
spend categories:
Labor Rates
Exchange Rates
Agriculture
• Biofuels
• Dairy
• Grains
• Oils & Oilseeds
• Livestock
• Sugars & Sweeteners
Energy
• Oil & Gas
• Fuels
• Electricity
Chemicals
• Feedstocks
• Commodity Chemicals
• Plastics
Metals
• Precious Metals
• Non-Ferrous Metals
• Steel
• Fabricated Metals
Building Materials
Capital Equipment
Replacement Parts
Indirect & Services
• Transportation & Freight
• Technology
• Overhead
• Logistics
Paper & Packaging
Many more….
Better market
intelligence
Linking contracts to
price escalators
Should cost modeling
Hedging
Other
0.00% 10.00%
10.60%
20.00%
24.00%
52.90%
54.80%
54.80%
72.10%
30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00% 70.00% 80.00%
Cost insight
IHS.com/PricingPurchasing
72% of buyers rely on ‘Market Intelligence’ as their primary
method for capturing cost savings.
(Source: IHS Procurement Benchmarking Study, Feb 2015)