Pretty good article. And it does make a lot of sense, too. I may not work in the supply chain and logistics, but I know enough guys who do to confirm that if you don’t have a good company-level relationship with all the other companies in your supply chain, then you are setting yourself up for HUGE production issues. And that issue has got to be ten times worse when you’re not just buying copies of an existing component, but trying to design a completely new one that will need to be repeatedly iterated and tested.
Couple that up with asking your management team to learn something as fundamental yet technically demanding and experience-based as DEALING WITH LIMITED MONEY (how the fuck did this happen. How did you get used to Blank Cheques of all things), and you’ve got a recipe for disaster even before we get into the upper management corruption.
Pretty good article. And it does make a lot of sense, too. I may not work in the supply chain and logistics, but I know enough guys who do to confirm that if you don’t have a good company-level relationship with all the other companies in your supply chain, then you are setting yourself up for HUGE production issues. And that issue has got to be ten times worse when you’re not just buying copies of an existing component, but trying to design a completely new one that will need to be repeatedly iterated and tested.
Couple that up with asking your management team to learn something as fundamental yet technically demanding and experience-based as DEALING WITH LIMITED MONEY (how the fuck did this happen. How did you get used to Blank Cheques of all things), and you’ve got a recipe for disaster even before we get into the upper management corruption.