Supply Chain by the Numbers: November 30, 2007

Supply Chain by the Numbers

-November 30, 2007

The Numbers Worth Knowing this Week in Supply Chain and Logistics

This Week: Semi-Conductor Ink Printing May Save RFID Technology from Writing On the Wall; Better Safe than Sorry at Wal-Mart; Rank and File Placement for US in World Bank's LPI; Clearing the Air on Cargo Ship Pollution



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The cost in cents expected within 5 years from a new technology capable of printing RFID tags using “semiconductor ink” from a company called Kovio (see Are Printable Transistors the Magic Bullet for Mass RFID Adoption?)

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The number of toys per day Wal-Mart says it has been sending to testing labs since August to look for safety and other issues, following the Mattel and other high profile recall incidents.


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The US ranking out of 150 countries in the World Bank’s first Logistics Performance Index (see Supply Chain Planet Weekly Video: New World Bank Ranks Countries on Logistics Excellence.)




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Amazingly, the percentage of the world’s total emissions of smog-causing nitrogen-oxide emissions that comes from cargo ships, which are also major sources of other pollution.