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In response to "But WHY would it take so long to get the supply chain back on track? That's just ridiculous." by ty97

As someone who studied supply chain management, it's because supply chains are incredibly complex webs

Posted by TWuG Nov 12 '21, 16:17

Of dependent actions.

Put stresses in the right places (huge workforce issues due to a pandemic, for example) and things can be gummed up for a long time.

You lose workers in shipping, receiving, unloading, moving, etc. and things start to back up. Then we you get people back to work, the backlogs need to be cleared while also trying to handle new orders.

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And that is just the human capital challenge. It’s built to be economically efficient lest you introduce all those ‘ions in - Will Hunting Nov 12, 16:25 3
- Yeah, efficiences are vastly underrated. Just in time and the various other names it uses have helped reduce costs - TWuG Nov 12, 16:29
- That's the worst cover of INXS "Mediate" I've ever heard. -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:28 1
  - 🤣 -- nm - JD Nov 12, 16:35
Imagine if we made some of that stuff here and didn't need to get it processed through a port.... -- nm - ty97 Nov 12, 16:19 6
- Guess what that'd give you? Also inflation. Because the cost to produce here is greater than the cost - TWuG Nov 12, 16:22 3
  - Also, we lost manufacturing over 50 years…we’re not rebuilding it in 6 quarters. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 12, 16:24 1
    - Manufacturing still happens in the US. What it doesn't require to the extent it did, is actual human workers. - TWuG Nov 12, 16:26
  - Even if we produced it here, even if we took that inflation hit, there's still COVID! -- nm - Qale Nov 12, 16:22
- If the issues persist, it will return to being profitable to do so. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 12, 16:21
- Congratulations, inflation has now tripled. -- nm - znufrii Nov 12, 16:21

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As someone who studied supply chain management, it's because supply chains are incredibly complex webs

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