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Re:Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker... by BolexNOLA on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:50PM (#34811112)
> JIT made sense for Toyota and they took steps to ensure their suppliers were beholden to them (that is they shipped whenever Toyota needed it).

Did that still hold true during the pandemic? I mean if you can't get stuff on the ships (huge part of the chain) they can't go out. It's not always a choice for suppliers as we saw.

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Re:Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker... by rawgabbit on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @09:15PM (#34814083)
Sorry I don’t follow your question. The pandemic resulted in both closed factories and ships not leaving port. A double whammy for JIT.
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Re:Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker... by BolexNOLA on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:28AM (#34820832)
Yeah that's what I mean - due to "the double whammy" they couldn't guarantee their deals with Toyota so it's all sort of moot, right?
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Re:Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker... by gavanm on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:46AM (#34816109)
Toyota had identified the strategic risk of chip supply some years earlier, and made sure they had access to large buffers of them, reducing the impact.

I’m not sure about the impact of shipping though.

See: https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/09/toyota-how-it-avoided-se...

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