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The folly of just-in-time supply chains | Letters
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a markets story. The Guardian Business is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 13 Nov 2026, 17:52 UTC. The headline in use is “The folly of just-in-time supply chains | Letters”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Hannah Walker says systems designed to minimise expenditure in the name of efficiency can end up less capable of fulfilling their actual purpose The article by Steven Strogatz and Alex Townsend on the dangers of excessive optimisation identifies a problem extending far beyond mathematics and artificial intelligence ( The efficiency…
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