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Why a car plant gets built without a warehouse.

From the 1950s Toyota perfected just-in-time: parts arrive only hours before installation. Stock costs space and capital and hides defects. The savings are huge, but the plant depends on trucks arriving on time. If a single supplier fails, the whole line stops within days.

Useful: Efficiency and resilience are a trade-off; cheaper usually means more fragile.

Source: de.wikipedia.org

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