Supply chain issues.....What does it mean really?

We now make stuff all across the planet...so the metal is mined somewhere processed into steel somewhere else then shipped to a 3rd place to be turned into radiators then shipped to an assembly factory then blah blah blah the car is eventually shipped to a dealer.

So, you have 17 moving pieces...and nobody keeps inventory anymore...it's too expensive to store 5000 radiators so you have them delivered as you need them...it's cheaper and more efficient because you don't need to pay for storage and can adapt to market forces more quickly.

BAM plague...the the ports don't have enough workers and the ships can't be offloaded and now you've got no cars being made because nobody has the radiators they need which are in a container off the coast of Japan because there isn't anybody to put offload them.

/r/stocks Thread