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Supply
Chain by the Numbers |
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- Nov. 1, 2013
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Food Stamp Risk at Walmart; Union Pacific Keeps the Profit Machine Going; CFOs, CSCOs Find Value in Collaboration; eBay Finds its Same Hour Delivery Shutl |
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Maximum number of minutes in which on-line consumers should expect to receive their orders in markets served by Shutl, which was just acquired by eBay. Shutl, which has been operating in the UK, is a web site that links local couriers to on-line orders, depending on each courier's location, availability, cost and other factors. Shutl's record is apparently a 15 minute delivery from time of order, including the courier stopping at a store to pick up the goods. Couriers, which have generally served B2B markets to date, have been recognized as kind of a wild card in the efulfillment wars. Ebay is expected to expand its eBay Now same-day program from four markets currently to as many as two dozen next year, saying the fulfillment center-based approach of Amazon.com is already a dated approach. We'll see.
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Percentage of companies that grew their EBIDTA more than 5% last year among companies in which the CFO said he or she had "engaged" with the head of supply chain. Conversely, only 22% of companies saw 5% or more EBIDTA growth where such CFO-supply chain engagement did not occur. That according to a new study from Ernst & Young. The new study says companies are realizing the power of such collaboration: 70% of the CFOs and 63% of the supply-chain heads responding to the survey say their relationship has grown more collaborative over the past three years
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The incredible operating ratio (operating expense divided by operating revenue) in Q3 at rail carrier Union Pacific, an all-time record. The profits at the rail carriers keep rolling on, despite largely sluggish volumes. The improved operating ratio led to net income increasing a bit to $1.15 billion from $1 billion in Q3, according to UP's recent quarterly earnings call, on what the company said were flat total car load volume. Operating revenues rose 4% even with the flat volumes, indicating rates were up by about that amount.
