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How a Small Taiwanese Factory Beat the Chip Shortage by Rethinking Procurement
When the global chip shortage hit in 2021, many small manufacturers were left scrambling. But one family-run electronics factory in Taichung, Taiwan, with just 120 employees, managed to keep its production lines running at 95 percent capacity throughout the worst of the crisis. How? By rethinking its entire procurement strategy. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack the specific moves the factory made: from building a 'shadow inventory' of alternative-certified parts to forming a five-company purchasing consortium with three competitors and a local university. They explain why the…
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