{"id":1359,"date":"2015-02-18T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2015-02-16T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T21:05:21","slug":"two-stories-about-just-in-time-delivery-from-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2015\/02\/18\/two-stories-about-just-in-time-delivery-from-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Stories about Just-In-Time Delivery… from Last Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
Although you might be the only person you\u2019re thinking about when you buy bubblebath online with two day delivery from Amazon, it turns out that the speedy and time-guaranteed delivery of your soap\u00a0is part of a pervasive\u00a0 trend that\u2019s\u00a0having huge effects on the global\u00a0economy.\u00a0Last week, I stumbled upon\u00a0two stories that really show how important the just-in-time delivery paradigm has become. The first,\u00a0from NPR\u2019s Planet Money<\/a>, the supply chain that perishable roses follow to get from halfway across the world, where it\u2019s the growing season, to flower shops\u00a0in anticipation of Valentine\u2019s day. For just this one day, prices can spike to double their usual levels. A few days too early or just a day late, as the episode discusses, can mean that hundreds of roses end up in the dumpster instead of in lovers\u2019 vases. The second, from APM\u2019s Marketplace<\/a>, takes a look at recent disruptions of the supply chain by labor disputes at West Coast sea ports. Over $1 trillion of goods move through those ports annually. To keep its factories running during the backup, Subaru has been forced to fly in\u00a0certain parts to avoid the bottleneck\u00a0at a cost of $60 million a month. Even shoe retailers<\/a> stand to be harmed by the slowdown of imports.\u00a0Although just-in-time delivery increases efficiency\u00a0and\u00a0convenience, it seems to also have a\u00a0downside:\u00a0 a more fragile\u00a0supply chain.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although you might be the only person you\u2019re thinking about when you buy bubblebath online with two day delivery from Amazon, it turns out that the speedy and time-guaranteed delivery of your soap\u00a0is part of a pervasive\u00a0 trend that\u2019s\u00a0having huge effects on the global\u00a0economy.\u00a0Last week, I stumbled upon\u00a0two stories that really show how important the just-in-time delivery paradigm has become. The first,\u00a0from NPR\u2019s Planet Money, the supply chain that perishable roses follow to get from halfway across the world, where it\u2019s the growing season, to flower shops\u00a0in anticipation of Valentine\u2019s day. For just this one day, prices can spike to Continue reading Two Stories about Just-In-Time Delivery… from Last Week<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}