Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:32PM
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Whether or not coronavirus turns into a stop-all-of-society-for-weeks event, China already stopped much of their society for a while. That means that things made in China are going to get scarce in a month or so. I therefore am paying attention to what things that I regularly use are made in China, and buying a few extra now, so that I can take a month or two disruption in the supply.
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Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?
by hangphyr on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:00PM
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If you speak to anyone who works in supply chain, they're all experiencing massive disruptions. Traffic from Chinese ports has slowed significantly, these things take some time before they start affecting our store shelves. Some people will be quite surprised to see how many things rely on Chinese supply, such as pharmaceuticals. Even if a product isn't exported in a finished form from China, vast amounts of our low-level supply chains rely on China.
Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?
by james_s_tayler on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:42PM
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Next some ex AWS engineer will quit Amazon to make a startup disrupting the supply chain industry with Shuffle Sharded Supply Chains.
Gotta limit that blast radius after all.
Re:Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?
by ganeshkrishnan on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:01PM
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It depends on which part of China. Some of our manufacturers have already started work and shipping. Few of them haven't resumed work and expect to on first week of March.
Most of our suppliers are in India and Nepal but it's business as usual in these countries