Supply Chain by the Numbers
   
 

-February. 18, 2010
   
 

This Week’s Supply Chain by the Numbers for Feb. 18, 2010

   
 

CAT Factory Starts Purring; Heinz Finds Seeks more than 57 Ways to Cut Supply Chains Costs; For Want of Part at Chrysler Factory in Illinois; Kraft Finds More with Less
   
 
 
 

100

Number of laid off workers recalled to a Caterpillar engine plant in Indiana last week, one of growing number of manufacturers that are cautiously adding workers as they are seeing demand pick-up, according to a Wall Street Journal story.

 
 
 



 

$1 billion

The target goal food giant H.J. Heinz Company has for its supply chain cost reduction program over the next five years, according to CEO William R. Johnson during this week’s earnings call.  Part of this effort is under the umbrella of the company’s broader Global Performance System initiative.
 
 
3
Number of days a Chrysler factory in Belvidere, IL, was closed this week due to a parts shortage. The company would not identify the part type or the supplier.
 
 
 
 
150 million

Pounds of packaging that Kraft Foods has removed from its products since 2005, reaching a corporate goal it set then two years early.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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