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January 08, 2009

Supply Chain by the Numbers: Week of January 8, 2009

The Supply Chain and Logistics Numbers Worth Knowing This Week: Dell and the Emissions Omission; Risk Taker - Stock Breaker, Office Depot Shutters DCs; Supply Chain Technology Growth

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

January 08, 2009

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week: Is there a Large Premium for "Captive" Rail Shippers?

Rail Shipper Lobbying Group Says Premiums Can Exceed 100%; Only the Carriers Hairdressers Know for Sure

TOPICS : Rail carriers/transportation

January 08, 2009

This Week's Supply Chain Trivia - Top 5 Countries in Logistics Competitiveness

What Were the Top Five Countries in the World Bank 2007 Report on Logistics Competitiveness?

TOPICS : Trivia

December 19, 2008

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week - Understanding Supply Chain Network Cost Curves

Flat Areas of Total Supply Chain Cost Curves can Often Show Way to Optimal Cost-Risk Trade-Offs

TOPICS : Network design/optimization | Supply chain costs | Supply Chain Planning software | Supply chain risk

December 19, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain by the Numbers - Holiday Shipping, Holiday Sales, Ocean Shipping

The Supply Chain and Logistics Numbers Worth Knowing This Week: Fed-Ex Ships Out!; On-Line Holiday Sales Flatten, On-Line Retailers Rowing Out to Meet the Ship with Free Shipping; Peak Import Volume Bottoms Out

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

December 19, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain Trivia - Something UPS Did Not Do This Fall?

What did UPS Not Do this Fall for the First Time Since 1999?

TOPICS : Trivia

December 11, 2008

Supply Chain Graphic of the Week - Two Decades of Consumer Goods to Retail Supply Chain Improvement Programs

From Quick Response to RFID, Programs Keep Attacking the Same Basic Issues; Successes and Critics

TOPICS : Consumer goods industry supply chain | Out-of-stocks | Retail industry supply chain

December 11, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain Trivia - Two Large Bar Code/Data Collection Related Trade Shows in the 90s?

In the Early/Mid-1990s, What were the Two Large Bar Code/Data Collection-Related Trade Shows that Enjoyed Several Years of Major Success before Quickly Fading, Merging, and then Quickly Disappearing Altogether by the Late 1990s?

TOPICS : Trivia

December 10, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain by the Numbers - Supply Chain Flexibility, Pirates, Foreign Oil Dependence, Apparel Suppliers

The Supply Chain and Logistics Numbers Worth Knowing This Week: Supply Chain Flexibility - Enough is as Good as a Feast; Where There is a Sea, There are Pirates - 24 hours a day; Foreign Oil Dependence Misconception?; Vanishing Global Apparel Suppliers

TOPICS : Supply Chain By the Numbers

December 04, 2008

This Week's Supply Chain Trivia - Supply Chain Movement Championed by Milliken & Co?

Textile Giant Milliken & Co, and its then CEO Roger Milliken, Championed what Supply Chain Movement in the Late 1980s/Early 1990s?

TOPICS : Trivia