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That's a plague amongst modern management and corporate operations, you return amazing numbers by cutting all your inventory and production slack and it works f
by throwaway2048 6y ago
That's a plague amongst modern management and corporate operations, you return amazing numbers by cutting all your inventory and production slack and it works fantastically, until a slight hiccup occurs and it fucks your production for years to come. But that is the next guy's problem, not yours.
Efficiency and Robustness are very often a tradeoff, the more efficient you are, the more prone your entire operation is to minor disruptions.
Something akin to overfitting in machine learning.
Also something to consider is what happens when the entire economy is forced in that direction, where you either cut everything to the bone for the sake of efficiency, or go out of business due to competition.
- GlennS 6y agoThere's also the issue that it's much easier to do quality control when you're receiving your supplies Just In Time. The longer the lag between producing a faulty part and trying to use it, the harder to diagnose the problem. The analogous software problem is probably having database backups sitting around without regularly testing if you can successfully restore from them.