As someone who worked in a will-not-be-named supply chain, the incentives are a combination of the silo-ing that occurs in any sufficiently large corporate stru

As someone who worked in a will-not-be-named supply chain, the incentives are a combination of the silo-ing that occurs in any sufficiently large corporate structure, and the simple fact that if a corporation can not spend money, they will not spend money. Case in point: In our (relatively small) facility we had two different switcher trucks (the really tiny semi trucks with hydraulics in the backs so they could jack up trailers without assistance, and without the driver leaving the vehicle). Over the course of one Christmas, both broke down because the company was always cheap about maintaining the things, which is especially bad because in our climate not maintaining trucks is a terrible, terrible idea. For about a week near end of December, route drivers were having to dock their own trailers on the building and according to them, were not being paid for that time, so they either had to hand the keys to their $90k-ish trucks over to complete strangers to let them do it, or do it themselves without pay after having driven usually 3-4 hours before. Most of the disorganization in places like this is simple shit, but the corporates constantly decline to spend literally ANY money on maintaining literally ANYTHING, plus as a corporate entity we're incentivized to be as quiet as possible, i.e. not submitting things up the chain that need doing or buying, and even better to cut costs continuously, usually by sidestepping maintenance or janitorial work. Mind you: this business was not even remotely in trouble, it's one of the largest shipping companies on the fucking PLANET, it's just in a corporation's DNA to be stupid and cheap.