Supply Chain by the Numbers: Week of January 7 , 2010
   
 

-January 7, 2010
   
 

This Week’s Supply Chain by the Numbers – China Overtakes Germany, Walmart Finds more Savings, Diesel Pricing and Manufacturing Growth

   
 

The Supply Chain and Logistics Numbers Worth Knowing This Week: China's Relentless Rise, Walmart get Smiley over Procurement Savings, Predictions for Diesel Pricing, and the Good Manufacturing News Continues
   
 
 
 

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China's new spot in terms of total export of goods, moving up from #2 to over take former number 1 Germany. Through the first 10 months of 2009, China exported $957 billion in goods, versus $917 billion for Germany, and nothing is expected to change those results when the last two months of the year are tallied. The US is the number 3 exporter.

 
 



 

5-15%

The amount in procurement spend a Walmart executive says the retail giant can save through a new strategy for global procurement, depending on the product category. Walmart intends to greatly eliminate buying through sourcing intermediaries and to centralize many global procurement functions.
 
 
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Number of consecutive months that the Institute for Supply Management's Manufacturing Index for new orders has been above a score of 50, indication economic expansion. The Production index has been above 50 for seven consecutive months, both based on numbers released this week by ISM.

 
 
 
 
$2.92

The retail price of diesel fuel that the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas recently predicted truckers would find at the pump in June of 2010, using a newly revised model. That would be up 41 cents from when the model was released last month, but with oil prices rising diesel prices are already near $2.80 per gallon this week.
 
 
 
 
 
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