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If you're suggesting there were several months worth of backlog prior to COVID-19, that would imply pretty massive inefficiencies...
by JshWright 6y ago
If you're suggesting there were several months worth of backlog prior to COVID-19, that would imply pretty massive inefficiencies...
- TeMPOraL 6y agoThere weren't; if there were, we wouldn't be in half as much of a bad shape as we're now. "Inefficiencies" is just a greedy optimizer's word for "safety margins", "redundancies" and "buffers". But we're living in a word run by greedy optimization. We're not consuming buffers (those were all cut long ago as "fat"), we're just lucky that the people responsible for logistics - who are right now forced to fly by the seat of their pants - are still managing to route goods around well enough for us to not notice, beyond an occasional shortage or price hike.