Industry Analysis
Information Bottlenecks Between Assembly Lines and Supplier Systems
General analysis grounded in manufacturing-floor reasoning, not a specific automotive engagement.
Just-in-time assumes information moves faster than it usually does
Assembly-line operations that depend on suppliers delivering just-in-time are structurally exposed to any lag between a supplier's actual stock or production status and what the assembly line's planning system believes it to be. This is the same floor-vs-system latency pattern described in "Information Bottlenecks Between Food Processing Floors and ERP Systems," applied to a supplier relationship instead of an internal one — which tends to make it harder to fix, since it crosses a company boundary.
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