General Discussion

Just A Day Too Late was our acronym.

I recall an instance at the GE plant around 1980, where a shipment of memory chips came in a week earlier than scheduled. The receiving department returned them to the vendor as required by management. Memory chips were in very short supply and the vendor immediately resold them. One week later, production employees were give a temporary lack of work layoff.

Cue spot market replacement chips purchased at ten times the cost. Cue low yields in production. Cue massive field issues.

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