Supply Chain by the Numbers: Week of March 19, 2009
 

-March 19, 2009
   
 

This Week's Supply Chain by the Numbers - Ocean Container Shipping, Supplier Risk, Wal-Mart Private Label, Mexican Tariff
   
 

The Supply Chain and Logistics Numbers Worth Knowing This Week: Still Waters Cut Deep; 90 Day Supplier Mire; Great Value - Wal-Mart's Private Ace in the Hole?; Mexican Tariff Payback
   
 
 
 

484

The number of idled ocean container ships as of this week, reaching a new high, as anchored capacity hit 1.41 million TEUs or 11.3 percent of the world fleet, in the face of declining trade volumes.
 
 



 

30%

For risk management purposes, the number of your key suppliers you should contemplate having the potential to go “upside-down” in just 90 days during this environment, according to a recent article by Fred Heegan, vice president of purchasing for Takata Corporation.
 
 
120

The number of people Wal-Mart is allocating to drive growth in its private label brands, as it announced it is going to put still more muscle behind its private label strategies.
 
 
 
 
$2.4 billion

The estimated amount of exports to Mexico from the US that would be impacted by the new tariffs Mexico announced this week on 89 categories of imports in retaliation for the failure of Congress to continue the cross border trucking pilot program originally approved in the 1995 NAFTA agreement.