alt Hacker NewsThere’s even a management tutorial game which demonstrates the dangers of removing too much slack from systems.
It’s called The Beer Game[1].
One of the funny things about it is even people that have played and discussed it before _still_ make the same fundamental mistakes next time.
Short-termism is the death of companies.
Wut?
The point of the beer game is that buffering in the supply chain makes the bullwhip effect worse.