This Week's Supply Chain by the Numbers for March 19, 2010

Supply Chain by the Numbers

-March 19 , 2010

This Week’s Supply Chain by the Numbers for March 19, 2010

Procter & Gambles goes for a Billion More; US Exports Stymied by Logistics; Frito-Lay Planograms for Success; How Many Different Supply Chains do you Have?



1 billion
Number of new global customers Procter & Gamble plans to add in the next 5 years by penetrating the world’s emerging markets, according to an interview with P&G CEO Bob McDonald published this week in USA Today. That would increase the consumer product giant’s total customers from 4 billion to 5 billion.

Number of days one Midwest soybean farmer was told it would take to get his shipment to Malaysia, up from three weeks or so last year, as a variety of factors are hampering the ability of US exporters to get goods to Asia and other markets. The farmer lost the order, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. (See New Bottlenecks in Shipping US Exports to World Markets.)


4%
The incredible sales bump that snack giant Frito-Lay says it received after moving to store specific planograms, according to director of category management Dave Boissevain in an interview this week with Supply Chain Digest. The Frito-Lay story will be told in an upcoming videoast; go here to register: Frito-lay videocast.




4-6
Number of different supply chains most large companies are running – whether they know it or not. That according to Gartner/AMR Research analyst Jane Barrett this week at a presentation to the CSCPM St. Louis roundtable, based on a recent AMR Research study.