inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agoDemand slump fuelled by Trump tariffs hits US ports and air freightwww.ft.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoLet’s see how that ‘Just In Time’ supply chain works out, shall we?
minus-squareBakkoda@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoWhoa whoa whoa, on demand manufacturing allows us to be agile and utilize LEAN manufacturing to provide maximum value to our shareholders by cutting wages, cutting positions and not investing in a single fuckin lick of infrastructure.
minus-squareinclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoYou’d think the world would have learned that lesson during and after COVID lockdowns.
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoJust in time supply chains are too cost effective for alternatives methods to compete.
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoThey’re cost effective as long as nothing goes wrong. Remember the knock-on effects of one ship blocking the Suez Canal?
Let’s see how that ‘Just In Time’ supply chain works out, shall we?
Ugh. This is gonna suck.
Whoa whoa whoa, on demand manufacturing allows us to be agile and utilize LEAN manufacturing to provide maximum value to our shareholders by cutting wages, cutting positions and not investing in a single fuckin lick of infrastructure.
You’d think the world would have learned that lesson during and after COVID lockdowns.
Just in time supply chains are too cost effective for alternatives methods to compete.
They’re cost effective as long as nothing goes wrong. Remember the knock-on effects of one ship blocking the Suez Canal?