Supply chain issues were sooo much worse before JIT. Imagine one person taps the brakes, but every car weighs 100 tons. When companies kept huge inventories, m

Supply chain issues were sooo much worse before JIT. Imagine one person taps the brakes, but every car weighs 100 tons. When companies kept huge inventories, most of it was not useful to solve the supply chain issues that came up and often made it harder to respond to demand shocks.