Everybody’s screwed. At least none of the companies who have brought this on themselves and all of us are begging for “too big to fail” bailouts. Yet.
The only answer I see is to pull up our big-person pants and grit through it. There isn’t a quick fix for the problem of trying to get more stuff through the channel than it can get rid of at the other end.
In my experience of having worked with chains large and small for many years, rarely if ever do chains break apart this way through stress. That link has been burned apart — very sloppily, and in the wrong locations. The links adjacent now need to be replaced, too, because misapplication of heat has no doubt weakened them.
Please forgive me for pointing that out, but the artistic blooper lept to my eye. Ow!
And it would have been a really nice touch if those screws had been clearly drawn as right- and left-hand.
Meanwhile the container ships waiting to offload at the port of LA/Long Beach are backed up to Honolulu and the port of Oakland is slow due to lack of work.
The Qpublicans LOVE this, since they love ANYTHING that can make the Democrats look even remotely bad… even though the roots of this issue go back at least 2 years…
Scroll down to the graph and click on “US” (on the right side of the chart) … we’re currently in 26th position. Our supply-side economy AGAIN fails to meet our needs.
There really isn’t much of anything that either party or the President can do about the supply chain. The pandemic shut down the nations economy leading to decreased ordering so stockpiles dwindled. Now, the economy is popping back up, but before there’s time to restock the shelves and get the trucks moving again. All of this will take time and maybe we’ll face a leaner Xmas, this year. Is that really so bad?
Excuse me…but isn’t this what usually happens when there is a world wide catastrophic event exacerbated by pi$$ poor leadership $crewups? Isn’t it just the begining of the overkill effect? Didn’t we see this coming when dRumpth became #45? When the dRumpth and the GQP embraced totalitarianism? When the rethugs cemented the policy of obstructionism working for the 1% instead of the general good? When the mental abberation infected a third of the American population and turned them into raving conspiracy maniacs? When the Grifters cult took over the media? Look you don’t have to be a fake psychic to see the future…just follow the money trail.
I had observed after the Great Recession from the Bush2 administration, that many of my suppliers, not wanting to get stuck for months or years with excess inventory, never completely restocked their warehouses, causing backorders and delays . (They were also competing with the emerging online ordering marketplace, where sellers never saw the product. They would take the orders, and the money, and have the product shipped straight from the factory. This also reduced their transportation costs.)
Once the pandemic hit, anyone could see how lack of back stock of many items hurt the consumer and retail outlet.
Another problem for brick-and-mortar stores, with so much merchandise being sold online, the manufactures are changing their pricing guides. Where once they priced the retail price as a doubling of the wholesale price or only 1.5 times the wholesale price, they started adding a MAP pricing,(the most one could advertise the price of the product). Over the years this has reduced to the point that the MAP price is only a small percentage above the retail price. This works fine for online orders where volume selling overcomes loss of per item profit, but it is putting small businesses out of business.
Another problem with this is the increase of throwaway merchandise and exhaustion of resources. Without viable recycling, refuse overwhelms and resources deplete.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
Everybody’s screwed. At least none of the companies who have brought this on themselves and all of us are begging for “too big to fail” bailouts. Yet.
The only answer I see is to pull up our big-person pants and grit through it. There isn’t a quick fix for the problem of trying to get more stuff through the channel than it can get rid of at the other end.
braindead Premium Member over 2 years ago
The Republican Party of Trump wants NOTHING repaired and will sabotage any efforts to do so.
mr_sherman Premium Member over 2 years ago
And who’s got the screwdriver?
ibFrank over 2 years ago
We are not the only country having supply chain problems, it will be solve in time probably without government actually helping.
PraiseofFolly over 2 years ago
In my experience of having worked with chains large and small for many years, rarely if ever do chains break apart this way through stress. That link has been burned apart — very sloppily, and in the wrong locations. The links adjacent now need to be replaced, too, because misapplication of heat has no doubt weakened them.
Please forgive me for pointing that out, but the artistic blooper lept to my eye. Ow!
And it would have been a really nice touch if those screws had been clearly drawn as right- and left-hand.
GiantShetlandPony over 2 years ago
The supply chain problem has more to do with the companies that supply the goods and the companies that move the goods.
A lot of the problem was so many corporations putting all their manufacturing into a countries across an ocean.
Frankly, I think the whole thing is being blown out of proportion by the media.
TCA1799 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Marty, right church, wrong pew! At the end of the day both the dems and reps will be in Congress and we are the ones screwed (again and as usual).
Teto85 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Meanwhile the container ships waiting to offload at the port of LA/Long Beach are backed up to Honolulu and the port of Oakland is slow due to lack of work.
Masterskrain Premium Member over 2 years ago
The Qpublicans LOVE this, since they love ANYTHING that can make the Democrats look even remotely bad… even though the roots of this issue go back at least 2 years…
The Love of Money is . . . over 2 years ago
They need an old LINCOLN Tombstone Welder . . .
superposition over 2 years ago
Scroll down to the graph and click on “US” (on the right side of the chart) … we’re currently in 26th position. Our supply-side economy AGAIN fails to meet our needs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/
Monchoxyz over 2 years ago
I remember years ago when just in time inventory was explained to me thinking what could possibly go wrong.
Alberta Oil Premium Member over 2 years ago
Free enterprise/capitalism will fix it.. just as soon as the government subsidizes the problem. Companies need just a smidgeon of socialism first.
preacherman over 2 years ago
There really isn’t much of anything that either party or the President can do about the supply chain. The pandemic shut down the nations economy leading to decreased ordering so stockpiles dwindled. Now, the economy is popping back up, but before there’s time to restock the shelves and get the trucks moving again. All of this will take time and maybe we’ll face a leaner Xmas, this year. Is that really so bad?
S&C = Dismayed&Depressed over 2 years ago
Excuse me…but isn’t this what usually happens when there is a world wide catastrophic event exacerbated by pi$$ poor leadership $crewups? Isn’t it just the begining of the overkill effect? Didn’t we see this coming when dRumpth became #45? When the dRumpth and the GQP embraced totalitarianism? When the rethugs cemented the policy of obstructionism working for the 1% instead of the general good? When the mental abberation infected a third of the American population and turned them into raving conspiracy maniacs? When the Grifters cult took over the media? Look you don’t have to be a fake psychic to see the future…just follow the money trail.
Wayne Troutman Premium Member over 2 years ago
Whatever is done, don’t remove those screws. They are the only things keeping their asses from falling off.
Frankfreak over 2 years ago
I had observed after the Great Recession from the Bush2 administration, that many of my suppliers, not wanting to get stuck for months or years with excess inventory, never completely restocked their warehouses, causing backorders and delays . (They were also competing with the emerging online ordering marketplace, where sellers never saw the product. They would take the orders, and the money, and have the product shipped straight from the factory. This also reduced their transportation costs.)
Once the pandemic hit, anyone could see how lack of back stock of many items hurt the consumer and retail outlet.
Frankfreak over 2 years ago
Another problem for brick-and-mortar stores, with so much merchandise being sold online, the manufactures are changing their pricing guides. Where once they priced the retail price as a doubling of the wholesale price or only 1.5 times the wholesale price, they started adding a MAP pricing,(the most one could advertise the price of the product). Over the years this has reduced to the point that the MAP price is only a small percentage above the retail price. This works fine for online orders where volume selling overcomes loss of per item profit, but it is putting small businesses out of business.
Another problem with this is the increase of throwaway merchandise and exhaustion of resources. Without viable recycling, refuse overwhelms and resources deplete.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Republicans broke it and they refuse to pay for it.