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-July 9, 2008 |
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The
Numbers Worth Knowing this Week in Supply
Chain and Logistics |
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This Week: The Best Things in Life are Free - Unless it's Trade; Salmonella Scare Hurts Tomato Farmers; T. Boone Pickens Pushes Alternative Energy Plan; Chrysler's Procurement Spend in Mexico
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30%
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The reduction in the importation of foreign oil that would be seen in only a couple of years if the US were to adopt T. Boone Picken’s newly released energy plan, according to the oil man and investor. Critics are disputing some of the plan’s assumptions, however, while others note the plan conveniently favors existing Pickens investments in wind power and natural gas.
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$7 billion
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The amount of Chrysler’s procurement spend in Mexico out of the company’s $40 billion in total outside spend, according to relatively new Chief Procurement Officer John Campi.
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The estimated cost to tomato farmers from the recent salmonella scare that took fresh tomatoes out of stores and restaurants – and which now appears to be caused by something besides tomatoes. The incident has led to calls for improved track and trace regulations. The losses could have been much worse for tomato farmers if the scare had happened a few weeks later, when the majority of this year’s crop was being harvested.
