What is driving it? The Trump haters in the media and the Desperate Dems hoping to defeat him in November.
Has it a name? ComDem Inanity!
Just in Time Supply Chain.
Yet another example of how MBAs are destroying the planet.
“PANDEMIC” = “DEM PANIC”
Dempanic, not pandemic.
Hat tip to an unknown Freeper.
Thanks, you panicky mofos.
Here’s the thing about efficiency:
It is VERY fragile. A completely efficient system is one long chain of potential single points of failure waiting to happen. If any one link breaks, you’re screwed.
Robust, fault-tolerant systems rely on redundancy to route around failures until they can be fixed.
Very, very true.
The small towns 10 miles from here in either direction are in MUCH BETTER shape compared to large chain stores in a “medium” city that is 45 miles away.
I agree that the efficiencies have reduced the excess inventory throughout the system. But there is a lot of BS in this article. If the mom and pop stores have more excess it’s because they have minimums that they need to make, therefor more time between orders and more back stock.
Grocery stores in big cities carry little inventory mostly because they do not have the space. If they miss a day of deliveries they are out of stock on critical items. Now go the other way and shut the city down for a day and they will have no room to put their deliveries.
Distance from the distribution center has little bearing on instock situations.
People need to stop hoarding.
Foolishness. I live in Bentonville Arkansas and we were out of a few things for about 24 hours.
Are we at that very center of supplies? No. We are at the very center of logistic and supply chain innovation.
With my industrial engineering background, I have a different perspective. I provide support for a small electronics manufacture. I had advised against relying on Chinese suppliers for anything due to the trade wars / tariffs. And I always recommended stocking up on major sellers to handle spikes in demand.
With the Wuhan virus, I’ve never been more right. We have a 2 month supply of popular products and probably longer of the slower sellers. I’d already identified alternate, American suppliers for a variety of components. We’ll still get connectors and cable in time, regardless of China’s capacity.
People who relied on just-in-time delivery from overseas are screwed.
Monastery Greetings is a good option. You can buy ale, religious icons, awesome baked goods and monk-made jellies - and the last order we had arrived in 5 days despite the mail slow down.