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In general the switch to just-in-time for everything was a fair-weather decision. You goose can your margins when things are great, too bad about your supply ch
by _jal 7y ago
In general the switch to just-in-time for everything was a fair-weather decision. You goose can your margins when things are great, too bad about your supply chain when things are less than great.
This is probably OK for ice cream and computer hardware. Less so for medical supplies.
- iguy 7y agoRight. And everyone understands this when it's the military: If you can't make more missiles at home, then you are a pawn of whoever you buy them from. We ought to have taken a similar line on a lot of medical supplies, especially those likely to be useful at whole-population scale.