Supply Chain by the Numbers
 

-June 12, 2008

 
     
 

The Numbers Worth Knowing this Week in Supply Chain and Logistics

 
     
 

This Week: CEOs Concerned About Supply Chain Risk; Rail Car Supply Exceeds Demand; Oil Price Prediction Continues to Rise; Inflation on the Rise in China

 
     
 
 
 

#4

Ranking of “supply chain risk” on a list of the top 10 internal company concerns of CFOs. The top three: (1) cost and availability of labor; (2) ability to forecast results; and (3) health care costs.

 
 



 

15-20,000

The number of rail cars Union Pacific says it has in storage, the result of slowing demand and over aggressive car orders in the past few years.

 
 
$250

The price per barrel of oil that may be reached in 2009, according to Alexey Miller,  chief executive officer of Russian state oil company giant Gazprom, at a conference in France, eclipsing the $200 prediction made earlier this year by Goldman Sachs.

 
 
 
 
8%

 

 

Current rate of China’s inflation.

 
 
 
 
 
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