A malfunction that shut down all of Toyota Motor's assembly plants in Japan for about a day last week occurred because some servers used to process parts orders became unavailable after maintenance procedures, the company said.
The problem is that leadership doesn’t interpret it that way and just sees “minimizing inventory increases profit!”
Yep. Managers prioritize short-term gains (often personal gains, too) over the overall health of a business.
There’s also industries where the “lean” strategy is inappropriate because the given industry is one that booms in times of crisis when logistics to get “just in time” supplies go kaput due to the same catastrophe that’s causing the industry to boom. Hospitals and clinics can end up in trouble like this.
But there’s other industries too–I haven’t looked for it, but I’m sure there’s a plethora of analysis already on what Covid did to companies and their supply chains.
Why would they prioritize long term gains? Their next review is only ever at most 6 months away and they’re either low-mid level and fighting for their lives every day or they’re upper mgmt and can always dump stick and YOLO out, potentially with a golden parachute.
Yep. Managers prioritize short-term gains (often personal gains, too) over the overall health of a business.
There’s also industries where the “lean” strategy is inappropriate because the given industry is one that booms in times of crisis when logistics to get “just in time” supplies go kaput due to the same catastrophe that’s causing the industry to boom. Hospitals and clinics can end up in trouble like this.
But there’s other industries too–I haven’t looked for it, but I’m sure there’s a plethora of analysis already on what Covid did to companies and their supply chains.
Why would they prioritize long term gains? Their next review is only ever at most 6 months away and they’re either low-mid level and fighting for their lives every day or they’re upper mgmt and can always dump stick and YOLO out, potentially with a golden parachute.