Matt Noyes#KimMoody on the #supplychain
"No matter how much automation or digital tracking there is along the supply chain, each point of production and movement of goods and provision of services depends on workers—altogether millions of them in U.S. infrastructure and transportation alone. In the final analysis, the velocity of just-in-time delivery is created by work intensification and speed-up on the job. By itself, “Big Data” can’t move a thing."
https://labornotes.org/2021/12/supply-chain-disruption-arrives-just-time
The Supply Chain Disruption Arrives ‘Just in Time’
A global spectacle unfolded in March when the giant container ship Ever Given, bound for Rotterdam from Malaysia, got stuck in the Suez Canal for six days, stopping 150 ships in one day and backing up shipping traffic at an estimated cost of $1 billion (£750 million). But the Ever Given snafu was no isolated incident. On the other side of the world, by early November some 77 container ships were stranded at sea outside the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, while almost a third of the ships in dock had to wait five days or more to be unloaded.
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