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I really wished people read up on the Toyota Production System, JIT and actually understood it before commenting on whatever press release Tesla or other put ou

• londons_explore 3y ago
  I'm afraid most of the JIT methods of 'not needing storage, everything is just in time', is in fact asking the suppliers to do storage for you. JIT tells a supplier, 'I need X parts available at exactly Y time. If they are late, I will punish you massively. You can't deliver them early either.'. So the supplier builds the parts early (so that any machine breakdowns/unforseen problems don't cause them to be late). The supplier then stores the parts till the exact time and delivers them. Parts are still stored, just the cost and effort of the storage is borne by the supplier. You can see this if you take apart a car and look at date codes on, for example, microprocessors. They'll be months or sometimes even years apart.
  • hef19898 3y ago
    Good, I knew supply cains and logistics is not necessarily your core competence.