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\nLife in a JiT supply chain<\/h2>\n

Your company, like most, probably manages according to\u00a0known priorities. Every business has so many ongoing sales conversations that if you built capacity to satisfy the sale pipeline you’d have an enormous factory that was rarely all that busy.<\/p>\n

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Because we all have so many conversations about possible contracts, expected new orders, and theoretical capabilities, we tend to ignore them over time.<\/p>\n

And then the inevitable happens – one works out! Suddenly the fire drill\u00a0accelerates to full speed -contingency planning meets the reality of lead-times and the casualty is flexibility.<\/p>\n

When that happens, compromises often result in equipment planning, design, and manufacturing that could have been avoided with\u00a0some advance planning.<\/p>\n

Why you’re buying a new stretch wrapper<\/h2>\n

We know that many companies add stretch wrapping\u00a0capacity for one of several reasons:<\/p>\n