Quotes About Supply chain

Simply consider that close to 80 or 85 percent of the cost of a tomato can be attributed to transportation, storage, and waste

Simply consider that close to 80 or 85 percent of the cost of a tomato can be attributed to transportation, storage, and waste (unsold inventories), rather than the cost at the farmer level.

perishable) food costs in America are largely, up to about 80 or 90 percent, determined by distribution and storage, not the cost at the agricultural level.

la diferencia entre pagar unos centavos por distribuir un contenido virtual, y los dólares que requiere hacerlo con camiones, almacenes y estanterías.

With the very rapid expansion of distribution platforms, we want to be in the supply chain with as many types of programs as we can.

The economic situation, the high cost of undertaking manufacturing, the supply chain - which is, by the way, dying out also as manufacturing undergoes hardship - make the U.K. not the first place you would look at to make a manufacturing investment.

We have to try to convince everybody in America, that if you eat you're involved in agriculture. That the shirts don't just spring up at Kmart on the rack. They're made from cotton.

Every time you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down the prices, somewhere there's a factory worker being kicked in the stomach. - Sherrie Ford

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

At a meeting early in his tenure, Cook was told of a problem with one of Apple's Chinese suppliers. "This is really bad," he said. "Someone should be in China driving this.

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

It is critical that you decide how you will sell and distribute your product before you commit to a product in the first place. The more middlemen are involved, the higher your margins must be to maintain profitability for all the links in the chain.

The scientific networks that produced EUV spanned the world, bringing together scientists from countries as diverse as America, Japan, Slovenia, and Greece. However, the manufacturing of EUV wasn't globalized, it was monopolized. A single supply chain managed by a single company would control the future of lithography.

in recent years is the collapse in the share of logic chips produced in the United States.

A lot of multinationals have long, drawn-out processes and are pretty useless at putting products on the shelves quickly.

Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon.

So much human attention and expertise, in fact, that even at four dollars a cup, chances were some person—or many people, or hundreds of people—along the line were being taken, underpaid, exploited.

Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.

When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.

The whole world knows we have it made in America . . . made in China made in Mexico made in Japan.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

Being able to make sure we have exactly what the fan wants at any time, that's what really drives our business. And having a supply chain that's vertical, and can get that merchandise to the fan, is incredibly important.

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.