The second quarter PC shipment data from IDC has hit, and it makes for interesting reading.
To do so, a quantitative distribution network model is established, and 150 scenarios are calculated by modifying real-world shipment data from an existing multinational FMCG manufacturer.
Digital Music News recently made a chart that tracks the decline of cassette sales, using shipment data from the RIAA.
But in the same period, the Gartner shipment data goes from around 10% to over 50%.
From the financial data and shipment data, it's easy enough to calculate the per-PC profitability of each company, though it creates a confusing picture.
Xiaomi shipped 17.3m smartphones in the third quarter, 5.3% of the 327.6m total global shipments, according to data from IDC.
From selling its first smartphone in 2011, Xiaomi became the world's third largest smartphone manufacturer in October with 6% of global shipments according to data from research firm Strategy Analytics and IDC.
But experts on the Chinese export quota process said that there tended to be about a one-month lag from the exercise of quotas until they showed up in shipment data.
Our analysis of the shipment data confirms that logistics sprawl increases truck travel.
The problem, they said, was delayed orders and shipments from data storage and specialty semiconductor customers.
We use the comprehensive freight survey data from 2003 and 2013 to analyze how the restructuring of logistics industry that occurred amid the broad trend of decentralization in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area has affected the efficiency of truck shipments.
