The folly of just-in-time supply chains | Letters
Hannah Walker says systems designed to minimise expenditure in the name of efficiency can end up less capable of fulfilling their actual purposeThe 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 trap: why optimising everything can backfire, badly, 8 November).The widespread adoption of…
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