Brooke Sutherland, Columnist

‘Just-in-Time’ Manufacturing Reasserts Itself

Industrial companies are retreating from the pandemic-era “just-in-case” mindset that inflated stockpiles of components.

September 8, 2023 at 5:40 PM UTC

By Brooke Sutherland

Brooke Sutherland is Bloomberg News' Boston bureau chief and writes the Industrial Strength Newsletter. She was previously a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering deals and industrial companies and an M&A reporter for Bloomberg News.

Manufacturers are increasingly deciding Covid-era raw material buffers are no longer necessary.
Photographer: Craig Hudson/Bloomberg

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“Just-in-time” supply chains were never truly dead and will probably never die.