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So what you're saying is, "it's complicated"?
by scrollaway 6y ago
So what you're saying is, "it's complicated"?
- Karunamon 6y agoQuite, but I'm also saying that your analogy was terminally flawed. Supply chain shipping != shipping your widget from Amazon.
- scrollaway 6y agoWasn't supposed to be an analogy but rather a simplification of the fact that delayed goods do not translate 1:1 to losses.
- lanstin 6y agoIt’s not Just complicated but a ton of math has been used for the last fifty years to make it as cheap as possible at the cost of robustness. Removing stacks of supplies at factories and ware houses in favor of just in time deliveries. Consolidating redundant factories. That sort of thing. I am not in logistics but I worked I a factory as an intern with the operations research group in the 1980s.