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Message: [QUOTE="kingdobbs, post: 3497286, member: 1655"] It is to a significant degree that supply chains tailored to “just enough and just in time” fulfillment haven’t quite managed to catch up with the increase in demand due to hoarding and panic buying. It's a philosophy that came out of manufacturing but filtered its way "down the line" to where retailers are making use of it in their fulfillment management. The ideal is that rather than keep a huge amount of inventory on hand, you try and fine tune your order management to anticipate your needs and trying to get just enough inventory to fill the shelves and hopefully before the shelf actually empties. I work for such a retailer (yes, we sell toilet paper; no, we probably still don't have any). Apart from product that we sell a large amount of during the course of a particular time frame, most product we don't carry any overstock beyond what's actually on the shelf. We also don't have a lot of broad capacity to "just order more"; ordering is done "at the register" (i.e. when product is scanned at point of sale) by the computerized systems that manage ordering and stock levels. The manufacturers and distributors are also tailored to this. Systems like this can usually handle small to medium increases in demand on a store to store basis. What they usually can't handle is a large spike in demand across the board. And demand hasn't seemed to abate lately (again, largely due to the hoarding and panic buying in the first place; when paper goods hit the shelves, people seem to jump on them before the pallet even gets off the truck). [/QUOTE]

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