• Bakkoda
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      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.

      • @altphoto@lemmy.today
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        Hold on the scrum master is saying something but these doritos are loud! It’s a big bag. Engincruncherring something something crunch clean crunch desk crunch your pink crunch sps. Crunch crunch belongings crunch crunch. I think he wants us to get everything to be pink!

        • @Almacca@aussie.zone
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          They’re cost effective as long as nothing goes wrong. Remember the knock-on effects of one ship blocking the Suez Canal?

          • @Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            22 days ago

            Such events are so uncommon they aren’t going to change the supply chain for them.

            This particular event isn’t solved by supply chain management. The goods aren’t coming because the tariffs and uncertainty are too high and distribution contracts don’t change that quickly.

            There were many articles a few weeks back about how American companies were canceling orders.

            For the first round of tariffs, they squeezed the Chinese manufacturers but after the tariffs continued to rise those manufacturers had to say no more and the American companies had no choice but to cancel orders.

            There is absolutely no surprise in shipments dropping because we’ve know for weeks that orders have been cancelled.

            Places like Walmart have a contract that the distributor must sell goods to them below a certain price point and no one can hit that price so the goods aren’t ordered and nothing is shipped.

            Walmart’s contracts is the reason shelves will go empty but don’t expect Walmart to take the blame when everyone is primed to blame Trump.