According to Soy Transportation Coalition Executive Director Mike Steenhoek, predictability is often viewed as more important than affordability and speed of transit for the supply chain. With fertilizer shipments being a concern for spring, Steenhoek says the supply chain’s ‘just in time’ delivery system philosophy needs to be revisited. “When you can’t count on something to be delivered as you expect, you increase the amount of inventory or storage you need. That ‘just in time’ model people are revisiting and realizing in many cases it doesn’t work for them. Even if there’s an economically compelling reason for that, it works when all of the actors are in-sync, but we’re clearly not in-sync.”
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