inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 day agoDemand slump fuelled by Trump tariffs hits US ports and air freightwww.ft.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1181arrow-down12cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
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minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 day agoLet’s see how that ‘Just In Time’ supply chain works out, shall we?
minus-squareBakkoda@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 hours agoWhoa whoa whoa, on demand manufacturing allows us to be agile and utilize LEAN manufacturing to provide maximum value to our shareholders by cutting wages, cutting positions and not investing in a single fuckin lick of infrastructure.
minus-squareinclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 hours agoYou’d think the world would have learned that lesson during and after COVID lockdowns.
minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 hours agoJust in time supply chains are too cost effective for alternatives methods to compete.
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 hours agoThey’re cost effective as long as nothing goes wrong. Remember the knock-on effects of one ship blocking the Suez Canal?
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoOh, I dunno. I reckon we do with a break from rampant materialism. Learn to grow food.
Let’s see how that ‘Just In Time’ supply chain works out, shall we?
Whoa whoa whoa, on demand manufacturing allows us to be agile and utilize LEAN manufacturing to provide maximum value to our shareholders by cutting wages, cutting positions and not investing in a single fuckin lick of infrastructure.
You’d think the world would have learned that lesson during and after COVID lockdowns.
Just in time supply chains are too cost effective for alternatives methods to compete.
They’re cost effective as long as nothing goes wrong. Remember the knock-on effects of one ship blocking the Suez Canal?
Ugh. This is gonna suck.
Oh, I dunno. I reckon we do with a break from rampant materialism. Learn to grow food.