Number of items that might actually in a carton arriving last year to any of Target's three new Canadian distribution centers - when the computer systems were expecting 24. It appears that somewhere along the way, the number of units defined in Target's system for a given case bar code were not what the number in the physical cases - a really, really big problem. All that according to a report this week from Reuters, which said this happened across dozens of products, and was a key factor in Target’s disastrous launch in in Canada last year, even as it sent up dozens of US workers to try to correct the problem. Merchandise wasn't getting to the stores. It isn't clear whether these errors were caused by Target's buyers entering bad data, vendors making mistakes, a problem in the systems of the 3PL running the Canadian DCs, or what.

Number of metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions that the extended supply chains of the world's top 10 food and beverage manufacturers is producing. That according to environmental and social responsibility focused organization Oxfam. The organization says that about half of that total comes from the production of agricultural commodities in those companies' supply chains, such as maize and soy. However, those indirect emissions are not covered by targets the firms have set to lower their emissions, which are restricted to their own operations and the energy they use, Oxfam says. It also claims that climate change will drive up the price of food dramatically over time.