Supply Chain by the Numbers
 

-June 19, 2008

 
     
 

The Numbers Worth Knowing this Week in Supply Chain and Logistics

 
     
 

This Week: Motor Vehicle Exports Rising in China; Industrial Manufacturers Spend Big Offshore; Kelloggs Reacts to Surging Prices; ID and Transportation Smart Cards Dominate RFID Market

 
     
 
 
 

71,000

Number of motor vehicles China exported in April, up 6.56 percent month-on-month and an amazing 69.46 percent year-on-year, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers reported last week.

 
 



 

29.17%

The percent of total purchasing dollars spent offshore (direct and indirect procurement) by US companies in the “Industrial Manufacturing” sector in 2007, according to the recently released annual CAPS Research benchmarking study. Electronics companies had the highest percent from offshore, at 50.21%.

 
 
2.4

The number of ounces on average by which Kellogg is reducing its cereal boxes while maintaining current prices, the company announced this week, in response to surging commodity and energy costs. Other cereal makers have responded by increasing prices while maintaining box sizes.

 
 
 
 
57.3%

 

 

The percent of global RFID spending in 2008 that is related to identification and transportation smart cards, according to recent research by IDTechEx. That includes a huge, on-going national ID card program in China with embedded RFID chips.

 
 
 
 
 
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