Consumer Demand Snaps Back. Factories Can’t Keep Up.

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Wonder why it's taking so long for your new appliance or furniture to arrive? It's called the 'bullwhip effect,' a problem with factories struggling to get back up to speed

U.S. manufacturers aced the shutdown of their factories and warehouses last spring in response to Covid-19. They’re botching the recovery.

After carrying out an orderly retreat from assembly lines as the pandemic arrived in the U.S., many manufacturers pulled out the playbook they followed in past recessions, cutting costs and preserving cash. That left themWithout restaurants to visit and trips to take, Americans bought out stocks of cars, appliances, furniture and power tools. Manufacturers have been trying to catch up ever since. Nearly a year since initial coronavirus lockdowns in the U.S.

The boating industry was preparing for a downturn but instead sales jumped, he said. Malibu’s orders were up by more than half last June from a year earlier and sales of recreational boats in the U.S. in 2020 were the highest in 13 years, according to the National Marine Manufacturers Association, a trade group.

 

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Once tried to apply concepts from transaction cost economics to bullwhip phenomena in supply chains in an independent study with Oliver Williamson.

Mr_Supply_Chain has been saying this for months.

That’s the point — we want to end lockdown and get back to our lives. The Gov must learn to navigate how to vaccine rollout an damage domestic affairs while we get on with life.

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