Supply Chain by the Numbers
 

-May 22, 2008

  
     
 

The Numbers Worth Knowing this Week in Supply Chain and Logistics

  
     
 

This Week: Prescription Drug Heist in Tennessee; Chinese Food Filling the U.S. Breadbasket; Fuel Costs for Big Brown are Big Deal; Cheap Labor in Costa Rica

  
     
 
 
 

9000

Number of vials of Johnson & Johnson’s anti-anemia drug Remicade in a truck heist in Tennessee last week. The thieves have not yet been caught nor the stolen goods recovered.
 
 

 

$4 billion

The amount of Chinese food exports to the US in 2007.
 
 
$334 million

Rise in UPS’ fuel costs in the last quarter, an increase of 54%.
 
 
 
 
$3.00

 

 

The fully burdened manufacturing labor rate in Costa Rica, according to an expert speaking at this week’s medical devices supply chain council conference.

 
 
 
 
 
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