Comment: Coronavirus may mean the end of just-in-time, as we know it

© Markus Gann

The supply chain as we’ve known it for years is dead.

Sure, the occasional tweak here and there – the shift from air to ocean perhaps, or the acquisition that helped expansion into a new region – has altered supply chains over the years, but something bigger is under way.

Coronavirus.

A number of experts will debate the impact of Covid-19 on supply chains for years to come, but first, let’s backtrack several years to a Wall Street Journal article written in 2006: ...