This morning I take a plane from Paris to Monaco and the flight has been delayed for an uncommon reason an issue with the truck that has to push the plane to the lane of departure. We had to wait in the plane for more than an hour for our plane to be handled by a new truck.
Thinking about this lead me to tackle the subject of inventory and agility. Indeed, if there was an available truck, our plane could have taken of on time. It seems obvious that keeping some products in an inventory help bear an unforecast demand for that product. Some people would say that it is an obvious sign of agility (1) while some others would say that lean production and zero stock is far more agile (2) !
Probably agility is in the middle of this two first points of view depending of your business and the time it takes to be restocked.
In my truck case, the agile driver should have been careful concerning the level of gas. It had just run out of gas !
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