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Supply
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-August 20, 2009
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The Supply Chain and Logistics Numbers Worth Knowing This Week: Penney's Inventory Reduced is a Penny Earned, Recession's Tools Found in Idle Factories, Union Pacific Pays to a Captive Audience, Home Depot Rapidly Deploys New Rapid Deployment Centers
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$100 million
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The estimated level of rate reductions and reparations expected to be provided by Union Pacific to coal shipper Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. over the next decade, after a recent Surface Transportation Board decision that UP had not correctly calculated the maximum mark-up over costs it was allowed to charge this “captive” customer.
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$33.9 million
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The cost for the eighth and most recent of Home Depot’s “Rapid Deployment Centers,” or new flow-through DCs that are a key element of the retailers supply chain transformation. The newest RDC was opened last week in Monroe, OH, between Cincinnati and Dayton, and is one of about 20 that Home Depot plans to roll out in just about 2 years.
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