Supply Chain by the Numbers
   
 

-April 1 , 2010
   
 

This Week’s Supply Chain by the Numbers for April 1, 2010

   
 

Supplier Risk Management Software Rising; Smuckers to Jam Rising Supply Chain Costs; Green Tariffs Coming; Oil Prices Reach 19 Month High

   
 
 
 

38%

The rise in spending in 2010 by companies for the relatively new category of “supplier risk and performance management software, according to the researchers at Forrester. The report says "buying organizations are eager to buy them to help avoid supplier disruption, pick better vendors and get the most value from existing relationships."

 
 
 



 

$60 million

What consumer goods manufacturer JM Smucker plans to save each year from a supply chain network restructuring program, being just the latest in a string of CPG companies to announce such a move. As part of the move, Smucker will close four plants and open one new one.
 
 
19

Number of months since we’ve had an average price per barrel of oil higher than what we saw in March. With an average price of $81 a barrel for West Texas Intermediate crude, it’s the highest monthly average since the market saw $104 per barrel on average all the way back in September, 2008.
 
 
 
 
9%

The amount of carbon tariff the European Union should put on products imported from China and other countries without strong carbon emissions reduction programs, according to a new recommendation from the Institute for International and European Affairs. See Green Supply Chain News: The Crazy World of Carbon Tariffs.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
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