Supply Chain by the Numbers
 

-October 2 , 2008
   
 

The Numbers Worth Knowing this Week in Supply Chain and Logistics
   
 

This Week: Savings at Home Depot; Mile High Attendance for CSCMP Conference; HP Publishes Supplier's Carbon Emissions Data; Cadbury Recalls Chocolate - You Never Know What You're Going to Get
   
 
 
 

$150 million

The amount of working capital Home Depot says it will free up for every one-tenth improvement in annual inventory turns. The goal is to improve by a full turn annually for $1.5 billion in savings.
 
 



 

3000+

Number of attendees expected for next week’s CSCMP Global Conference in Denver.
 
 
3.5 million

The number of metric tons of carbon emissions released by HP’s tier one suppliers in 2007, the company announced this week. This was the first time the high tech giant has published this data, which it says will ultimately be used to "incorporate energy efficiency into how it manages its first-tier suppliers." (See HP Releases Supplier Emissions Report - Is This a Good Thing?)
 
 
 
 
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The number of SKUs made in a China that European chocolate giant Cadbury announced it was recalling from store shelves this week, as fallout continues over the tainted Chinese milk scandal.
 
 
 
 
 
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