Posted on 01/28/2023 12:38:04 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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Maranatha!
And now a fire at an egg farm in Connecticut. 🤔
The “problem” is that we switched over the JIT (just in time). The entire supply chain went from “make as much as possible, store it strategically in multiple layers, to eventually get it on the shelves” to “guess what will be needed, make as needed, and get it there 5 minutes before the buyer shows up”. Which is wonderful for the bottom line, way less warehousing, way less spoilage, way less wasted space. But it kills all elasticity. We used to have these warehouses full of just in case supplies so when the supply chain got messed with consumers mostly didn’t notice. JIT got rid of all that. And then we started shutting things down in 2020, and the supply chain is a mess ever since. Slowly but surely it’s getting back to normal as we’re finally not doing “focused shipping” (the TP run really messed everything up). But we won’t be fully over it for at least another year.
Bkmk
don’t forget they destroyed the USDA commodity supply that helped many poor people, butter, honey, peanut butter, sugar, flour etc. by giving it to anybody but citizens in the US.
And there was the Freeport LNG terminal explosion in Texas last summer before the NORDSTREAM pipeline explosion in Europe. Coincidence?
" Remarkably, no one was present at the time of most of the fires.
The Eco Health Alliance whistleblower, a bioterrorism expert, military veteran, and scientist Dr. Andrew Huff has a possible explanation for the food supply fires."
"Huff has access to government information about simulating a food supply attack.
The information comes from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Food and Agriculture Sector Criticality Assessment Tool (FASCAT).
This also includes which places are particularly at risk."
"According to Huff, who authorities have harassed due to the nature of his work since 2019, the U.S. government coordinated the attacks on the food facilities.
But, in addition, something remarkable happened: the hard disk with the FASCAT data disappeared."
"Since then, there have been about 200 food factory attacks around the world, most of them in the U.S., he explained.
There is no major interest in why supplies are being hampered because the media shows little interest in the problem."
The democrats stole the last presidential election and have getting away with stealing senate and house elections for years. They are getting away with mass murder with the chinese virus illegal shutdown too.
Many of us old timer “gloom and doomer” and “conspiracy theory” types have been complaining about JIT for decades.
The key is for each household to have its own large inventory—at least of non-perishable goods—as long as corporate America refuses to do so.
From a business perspective JIT makes a ton of sense. No more warehouses, no more backroom, reduced spoilage, it’s completely awesome. All the way up until it isn’t.
Of course the reality is all these supply chain problems of the last 3 years have at most mildly inconvenienced me. Couple mild issues, but really nothing serious.
I have a MBA background and JIT has always been controversial—weighing short term gain against long term risk.
The problem is that there is no “insurance” you can get that will miraculously resupply inventory if the supply chain has issues.
What corporations did was they rewarded senior managers (with bonuses and stock options) who used short term decision-making.
They did not have to do that—there are many ways to give executives incentives for long term planning.
We've lost the strategic value of being able to make things here. There is an incalculable value in that.
When I worked for Motorola in the 80s and 90s, we did JIT. Unbelievably stressful when 1 shipment is missed.
I CANNOT IMAGINE anything in the food supply being JIT operated. Foolish.
Been prepping, especially since 2008
I said 10 years ago, wait until they figure out how cheap and effective fire is, guess they figured it out.
It’s gonna get worse, much worse.
I think this charge has to be a little more specific - certain Communist fellow travelers who came in with the Clinton and Obama Administrations and can’t be pried out of their positions with crowbars believe they are advancing the Revolution by encouraging eco-terrorists to attack these facilities. These enemy agents should be identified, prosecuted, convicted, and hanged as traitors to the Republic.
Correct.
The savings from reducing non performing inventory ie stuff lying in the warehouse or in store longer than 3 months is huge.
But i saw Proctor and gamble, reckitt benckiser etc move away from that, partially, way back in 2016. They moved further into warehousing due to the covid disruption
I never heard of it being controversial. I know it’s one of the keys to WalMart’s low prices. I think it actually took a lot of long term planning to switch over to JIT. There’s a lot of redesign of stores, changing your entire supply chain.
To me all things have positives and negatives. JIT has the positives of more of the store being actual store, less storage overhead, and less shrinkage. But it has the negative of lack of elasticity. Warehouse style is great for elasticity, but you’ve got all that over head. Like so many business decisions, pick your poison.
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