PM @logistics (aka share your supply chain horror stories)

doogie said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

doogie said:

Yet you voted for the crew that brought us the Open Border Crisis, national lockdown and the Blockage of the Suez Canal

Shut the fuck up

He screams while sobbing uncontrollably

Stay in the tug if you want a cunt safe space. You're not cut out for this club.

LoneStarDawg said:

If you were wondering what the boat was doing before that “accident”

https://youtu.be/NH7ZV5Lkqe0

LoneStarDawg said:

If you were wondering what the boat was doing before that “accident”

https://youtu.be/NH7ZV5Lkqe0

Plenty of other ships in the canal, none of them “blown off course”

Doog_de_Jour said:

Bumping for this excellent video I watched RE: supply chains / shortages.

https://youtu.be/b1JlYZQG3lI

COVID was just the match that lit the powder keg of other issues that pre-dated the pandemic.

My big takeaways:

- As outlined in @GrundleStiltzkin’s excellent book club recommendation, The New Map, shipping containers and @Logistics are critical
- You will continue to be fucked if you want a rental car
- We desperately need to step up computer chip production
- The much heralded Toyota production system, and it’s half assed implementation its “just in time manufacturing” by most companies, is at the heart of many of these inventory shorts

No kiddin’. JIT inventory got exposed like a Coug defense on Black Friday. I’d think Businesses may reconsider this strategy after all of this.

The bean counters will probably win that battle though.

Kaepsknee said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

Bumping for this excellent video I watched RE: supply chains / shortages.

https://youtu.be/b1JlYZQG3lI

COVID was just the match that lit the powder keg of other issues that pre-dated the pandemic.

My big takeaways:

- As outlined in @GrundleStiltzkin’s excellent book club recommendation, The New Map, shipping containers and @Logistics are critical
- You will continue to be fucked if you want a rental car
- We desperately need to step up computer chip production
- The much heralded Toyota production system, and it’s half assed implementation its “just in time manufacturing” by most companies, is at the heart of many of these inventory shorts

No kiddin’. JIT inventory got exposed like a Coug defense on Black Friday. I’d think Businesses may reconsider this strategy after all of this.

The bean counters will probably win that battle though.

I’ve always been interested in this, despite how heralded and lauded JIT works it’s never made a ton of sense to me. It works well enough when the supply chain is uninterrupted, but it feels like a lot of sectors (defense, aerospace, even automotive) are finding reliable and non-Chinese supplies hard to come by. Crazy to me there isn’t a drive to manufacture semiconductor stateside. When the shit hits the fan we get to where we are now.

From the engineering side, any time a part obsolescence issue comes up (frequently in aerospace) we have to figure in holding costs for us sitting on the part. But what’s worse, holding costs or not being able to build anything?

Business type MBA’s are running engineering into the ground.