Each year, we gather supply chain trivia from the news and animate it to help people understand the importance of Supply Chain Management. We share it here to help #supplychain leaders.
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How much of OIL DEMAND
is from cars?
Cars
25%
Transport
fuel
except
cars
25%
Other
50%
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How many jelly
beans were used to
make this portrait
of Ronald Reagan?
10,000
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How much was a McDonald’s hamburger
when the company opened in 1940?
15
cents
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How many more Amazon Prime
members exist in the US
vs. TWO years ago?
32 Million…now @ 95 Million
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What semiconductor chip
manufacturer was initially
named Moore Noyce … a name
that was allegedly rejected
because it sounded like
“More Noise?”
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Of the top
20 UNIVERSITIES
in the world,
how many are
in the
United States?
16
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What chemical company won
an Employee’s Choice Award
in 2014 for being one of
the 50 Best Places to Work?
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How many different
versions of Cheerios are
there today? Sixteen
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How much of
Domino’s Pizza
ownership did
the owners
trade for a
used Volkswagen
Beetle in 1961?
50%
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How many cans of pork and beans
does the Campbell Soup Company
sell in a year?
100
million
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How much did Amazon pay for Whole
Foods?
$13.7 billion
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Why was a string
added to the Nabisco
Barnum’s Animal
Crackers box?
To hang it on
the Christmas
tree
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In the 1990s, the US
was the largest
MINING COUNTRY in
the world. What was
it in
2013?
7th
after China,
Australia,
Brazil, Russia, &
South America
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What candy is said to be buried
with Frank Sinatra?
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In the late 1940s,
MANUFACTURING
accounted
for 25%
of US GDP
… what was
it in 2013?
12%
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What birthday did
SPAM
celebrate this year?
81years(born in 1937)
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How much
of the
population
is in
Generation Z?
Greatest Gen
1%
Silent
Gen
7%
Baby
Boomers
24%
Gen X
20%
Millennials
22%
Gen Z
26%
26%
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In 1907, what company
offered a FREE box
of cereal to every
woman who would
WINK at her grocer?
(the Battle Creek
Toasted Corn Flake
Company at the
time)
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What percent of
US grocery sales
were made ONLINE
in 2016?
2%
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In 1985, what
animal joined
the marshmallows
in Lucky Charms
cereal?
The whale
(in a limited run)
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How many possible drink combinations
are there at Starbucks?
87,000
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How many jobs in capital markets
are expected to be replaced by
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE by 2025?
230,000
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How much did
UPS pay in
Manhattan last
year for
traffic
tickets?
$17 million
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Which company developed the
concept of “just in time” in 1937?
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What is the 2nd largest
SALE DAY
in the US,
after Black Friday?
LABOR DAY
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How many companies has Amazon acquired?
12
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What company did
this LOGO belong
to until the
1980s?
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Which metro area has the most
MANUFACTURING WORKERS in the
country?
A.Chicago
B.Detroit
C.Los Angeles
D.Philadelphia
C.Los Angeles
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How many O’s
are in a 15
ounce can of
Spaghetti O’s?
1750
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How many gallons of
PAINT does it
take to cover the
White House
exterior?
571
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How much time is
spent per person
on phone
applications in
an average day
in the US?
3.5 hours/day
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What is the
first ingredient
listed on every
package of
Goldfish Crackers?
“Smiles”
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By how much does the world
population increase
EVERY SINGLE DAY?
200,000
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How much chocolate and candy does
the average American consume
each YEAR?
25
pounds
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For every iPhone
sold, how many
applications are
downloaded? 199
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The first PEEPS
took 27 hours
to manufacture.
How long does it
take now?
6
minutes
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Dreyer’s in the Western U.S.
is the same as what brand
in the Eastern U.S.?
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What was the
itinerary
of the first
container ship
in 1956?
Newark, NJ Houston, TX
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How many pallets must
you remove from a supply
chain to save ONE tree?
11 pallets
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How many standards of
pallets are recognized
by the ISO?
SIX
42. Supply Chain Insights Global Summit #Imagine2030
How long does
it take a
recycled
aluminum can
to cycle back
to the shelf?
90 days
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One in every FOUR dollars spent on
groceries in the U.S. is spent at
what retailer?
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What popular condiment
was once manufactured in
slices, like Kraft Singles?
Peanut
butter
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What recently
overtook ketchup as
America’s top selling
condiment?
Salsa!
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How many
paper cups
does Starbucks
use every
YEAR?
4 billion
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What percentage of
South Korea’s GDP
is accounted for by
Samsung?
17%
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How long
does it
take a
ship to
transit
the
Panama
Canal? 8-10 hours
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How many
types of
bananas
are there?
1000
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How many people
does McDonald’s
serve in an
average DAY
globally?
68 million
51. Supply Chain Insights Global Summit #Imagine2030
All the eggs used in U.S.
McDonald’s pass through what
company’s
plants?
52. Supply Chain Insights Global Summit #Imagine2030
What was the
first item to
have a
BARCODE?
A pack of
Wrigley’s
gum
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61 cm
How much
room is left
on each side
of the
largest
ships
transiting
the Panama
Canal?
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What is the name for the new
shipping route from China to Europe,
along Russia’s northern coastline?
Northeast
Passage
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What region of the
world produces
nearly 70% of the
world’s cocoa?
West Africa
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The term “supply chain management”
was FIRST used in what year?
1982
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How long is a Maersk Triple E?
Just 2 meters short of
a quarter mile
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What was the
inspiration
for the
barcode?
Morse Code
dashes
and
dots
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After automobiles, which industry
advertises the most on TV?
Cereal
60. Supply Chain Insights Global Summit #Imagine2030
In what year did the
US Department of
Labor add a
“logistics and
logistician”
classification?
1990
61. Supply Chain Insights Global Summit #Imagine2030
What Fortune 100 company
was the first to release
a CSR policy as part of
their annual report?
Dow
Chemical
in 1996
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How many cars could the
Maersk Triple E carry in a
single trip?
36,000
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What percentage of US consumers made a
purchase, in store or online, at
Walmart last year?
95%
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How many servings of
Coca-Cola products are
consumed
worldwide
in an
average
DAY?
1.9
billion
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How many
Barbies
are sold
in the
world
every
SECOND?
TWO
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What percent
of all Legos
sold each
year are sold
between
Thanksgiving
and
Christmas?50%
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Which major
financial firm was
founded in 1799?
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What is
the
average
growing
time for a
standard
Christmas
tree?
7 years
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Yet
Another
Hierarchically
Organized
Oracle
What is
acronym for?
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What state leads
the US in per
capita oatmeal
consumption?
Vermont
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How many plastic drinking bottles
are bought every minute?
1 million
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How many gallons of
sap does it take to
get 1 gallon of
maple syrup?
30-50 gallons
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How many
barcodes are
scanned
worldwide in a
SINGLE DAY?
6 billion
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Which logistics
company’s logo includes
a hidden arrow?
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What product was developed in
Germany during WWII due to a
shortage of supplies necessary
to produce Coca-Cola?
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How many whistles
were required for
the 2012 London
Olympics?
4,000
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Auto manufacturers typically shut
down in what month to retool for
the new model car?
June
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In what year did
IBM begin the
first reverse
logistics and
demanufacturing
program?
2002
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Today, 2% of American clothing
is produced domestically.
What was it in 1990?
50%
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How much
of world
sea trade
goes
through
the Suez
Canal?
7.5%
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450 years
How long
does it take
for a
plastic
bottle to
biodegrade?