Supply Chain by the Numbers: Week of January 21, 2010
   
 

-January 21, 2010
   
 

This Week’s Supply Chain by the Numbers Jan. 21, 2010

   
 

Procter & Gamble Moving the Suds and Blades On-Line; HarperCollins Publishes Its Improved DC Productivity Gains from Voice; China Growth Accelerates; SCDigest 57 Sauce
   
 
 
 

$500 million

The amount of on-line sales consumer products giant Procter & Gamble said it had last year, out of its some $75 billion in total sales - but still a higher number than many might have thought, including us.
 
 



 

60%
The improvement in the amount of time it takes to get a new order picker in the Scotland DC of book publisher HarperCollins to reach expected productivity after moving to a voice-based system, according to Supply Chain Director Mike Levaggi during a presentation at this week's Distribution Management Expo on-line conference.
 
 
10.7%

The growth rate the Chinese government said the country's economy achieved in the fourth quarter of 2009, its highest quarterly growth rate since 2007, even as its export levels remained depressed.

 
 
 
 
57

The number of events or news stories SCDigest decided were noteworthy enough to make the list in our Decade in Suppy Chain Chronology, in which we list the top stories year by year from 2000-2009. Interesting to see what has transpired.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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