#787: FedEx Delivers - From CBS Sunday Mornings

 Very interesting segment, especially for those studying logistics!

#753: Product Scarcity May Impact Holiday Shopping

 Accounting students - don't miss the opportunity to connect this story to JIT.  No longer the darling of inventory management strategies!

#740: America's Microchip Problem - 60 Minutes 5/2/21

 Click here to load this fascinating segment from 60 Minutes on what many consider our top supply chain problem as we emerge from the pandemic - a shortage of manufacturing capacity in the US for semiconductor chips.

#735: What the Ever Given Saga Has Taught Us About the World

 Click here to access an interesting Washington Post article about global supply chain and the implications of a disruption in international shipping.  You may be required to register for free access to a small number of articles monthly. 

#706: COVID-19 Leads to Major Nationwide Disruptions

Click here if video fails to load. This video is a great example of how our view of supply chain has shifted due to changes in demand. JIT isn't quite as great as we used to think it is/was!

#700: The Daily Show Segment with Scott Blubaugh

This segment represents an intersection of ACC 202 with economics and history. Interesting comments on JIT! Click here if video fails to load. This segment represents one point of view. I don't expect you to agree with it, but I ask you to consider it thoughtfully and recognize where you might agree and where you might disagree, particularly with regard to anti-trust legislation.

#310: A Little Logistics Courtesy of Amazon

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This video shows a policy that is contrary to the LL Bean approach of placing the most popular products closest to the pickers' central location. Of course, amazon.com has FAR more products than LL Bean.

#266 Ford Avoids Disaster by Keeping Suppliers Afloat

Click on the post title to access an article from the WSJ regarding how Ford worked within its organization and with other automakers to keep their vital suppliers afloat during the economic crisis of 2008-9.

#216 JIT Kink for Ford

Ford can’t make enough Focus cars to keep up with rising demand because of equipment problems that have caused a shortage of dashboards, two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.

Machinery that makes the skin that covers dashboards at a Ford parts factory outside Detroit works intermittently. That is forcing the company to take the unusual and costly step of flying in parts from Europe to keep its assembly lines moving, the people said. Despite those efforts, the Focus plant near Detroit can’t run at full speed, they said.

The problem comes at a time when high gas prices and shortages of Japanese small cars have driven up demand for the Focus. Dealers say they’re having trouble getting the newly redesigned compacts, and they’ve been forced to put customers on waiting lists.

#190 Disruption in Supply Chain for Automakers

JIT is great, except when it isn't. The disaster in Japan will likely impact U.S. auto production.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/23/autos/toyota_us_plant_shutdown/index.htm?hpt=T2

#147 Logistics!!!!

Thanks for this little ditty, UPS! It's cute, but it's also about supply chain management and JIT!