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That's assuming you can get salt in time for the storm, or even at all at that point. At least on the consumer side, a lot of the manufacturing facilities that
by drewzero1 6y ago
That's assuming you can get salt in time for the storm, or even at all at that point. At least on the consumer side, a lot of the manufacturing facilities that produce deicing salt switch over to producing fertilizer around new year's. A year or two ago we had a late winter storm and all of the stores in the area were out, and their warehouses too.
- clairity 6y agoyes, good point. we base our statistical inferences on backward-looking data, but the future can change in ways we're unable to fully predict and account for. this illustrates that just-in-time isn't an unalloyed good. it trades off resiliency for cost (and a bit of agility). it also introduces more structural variance in the supply chain, exacerbating supply issues, which isn't obvious on first blush (operations research coursework covers this).