Time to Return to Just-in-Time?
"Wisdom is given equally to everybody. The point is whether one can exercise it." - Taiichi Ohno, The "Ten Precepts"
The supply chain profession has recently run the gauntlet of existential challenges. Is it possible that - given enough time - they could return to the old ways?
There have recently been a number of news stories about retailers returning to just-in-time inventory management. If that is the case, and supply chains are returning to pre-pandemic practices with minimal changes, then we may be setting ourselves up to forget… and fall prey to the same failures once again.
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