[runawaybottle]

Your description doesn’t sound too different (if at all) from the face mask/ventilator shortage at the start of the pandemic. We didn’t stock up, and everyone tried to JIT purchase the necessary equipment.

Maybe we all have something to learn from Doomsday preppers.

[burnte]

> Maybe we all have something to learn from Doomsday preppers.

A little, but really just implementing the Toyota Production System properly. You'll never be perfectly prepared for everything, but a lot of the mess over the past 18 months of supply chain problems could have been avoided. In my personal life, I am NOT a prepper, but the way I stock my house, I had no issues with toilet paper, meat, or other weird shortages. I look at what I have no, what I'll need adn when, and how things are going. I didn't look for TP when I was out, I looked for it a week or two ahead of time.

[Akronymus]

Didn't toyota pioneer the JIT system of logistics?

But as with most such systems, others only implemented it partially and thus in a way that in the end creates problems.

[imtringued]

They looked at it and thought: "They cut 90% of the costs. We can do one better and cut 100%!"

[Akronymus]

Which works until it doesn't. When it does they look at it as having improved what already exists (The toyota model) when it doesn't they blame the original one instead of their mangled implementation ("agile" anyone?)