Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022

Re:Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant un... by thow-01187 on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:20PM (#28711447)

They provide short-term, non-committal inventories and buffers to a supply chain that doesn't have them, since it runs on long-term contracts. In some ways, they're capitalizing on the failures of just-in-time inventory dogma

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Re:Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant un... by rtpg on Friday October 01, 2021 @02:01AM (#28715153)

The chips would have been sold in any case!

They're taking advantage of some fluxuations to make money for themselves. That isn't helpful for the producer nor for the purchaser of the goods.

This isn't people setting up futures for 555 timers. This is people scooping up PS5s and immediately selling them for an extra $200.

Of course it's nobody's god-given right to own a PS5 but there's not value being produced here.

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