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Depends on the item. If it's medical supplies or food, "supply disruptions" can kill people. If it's iPhones or Christmas novelties, it's not a crisis.
by wffurr 6y ago
Depends on the item. If it's medical supplies or food, "supply disruptions" can kill people. If it's iPhones or Christmas novelties, it's not a crisis.
- sitkack 6y agoFolks keep inventories because the cost of not having X at time Y is not priced accordingly at the supplier. Digikey doesn't care or know if the 0.10$ part is going in a 10M one-off or a 4$ toy. JIT works for fungible commodities, you suddenly realize how much the cost/volume/downside ratio works when your always-on JIT capacity goes to zero. I don't want my water treatment plant to go down because a bean counter decided that spare parts are now stocked entirely by McMaster-Carr.