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Just the facts please… March 7, 2008

Posted by Jonathan Gatrell in Actionable Intelligence.
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David’s recent post on how the Supply Chain is becoming increasingly important for businesses, got me to thinking about why is this trend emerging. To that end, I spent some time reading analyst information, looking up industry trends and understanding the events in the supply chain and their impact on a business. Here is a list of 10 industry metrics which support the rising importance of the supply chain for manufacturers, transportation providers and retailers:

  1. 8-10% of a companies revenues are impacted by deductions
  2. 47% of Out of Stocks are caused by Ordering and Forecasting Issues
  3. A 2 percentage increase in your perfect order rate correlates with 10 cents in Earning Per Share
  4. Between 20-24% of orders are not delivered on time for CPG and F&B manufacturers
  5. Consumer Product Manufactuers on average spend 21% of revenue on the supply chain
  6. Transportation spending averages 6%, but leaders can reduce this to 3%
  7. Corrugated slip sheets produce 2.6 times as much solid waste, require 18 percent more total energy and produce 4% more greenhouse gases than a pallet pooling initiative/system.
  8. 80% of the US Gross National Product begins with a purchase order placed through traditional ANSI X12 EDI
  9. 30 percent of the data in retail catalogs are in error, and each error costs $60 to $80 to correct
  10. Up to 37 percent of invoices a year error out with either bad item numbers or prices