Everyone I know in the business went from doing JIT parts acquisition to making sure they have a year worth of components, for everything. It's the toilet paper

Everyone I know in the business went from doing JIT parts acquisition to making sure they have a year worth of components, for everything. It's the toilet paper issue again, only this time it's industrial manufacturers. The correct way to solve this would be to set up a futures market on the parts. This way people who really need certain quantities at certain dates can still access them, and hoarders can put a price on the stock they're sitting on.