I disagree, respectfully. Not that I think everyone should inventory a year of everything. But the ethos of JIT is that you can treat your supply chain as if it’s infinite, and this keep it close to your projections.

Automotive got hit especially hard since any feature that requires electrics has the microprocessor embedded in that feature. Very cost effective-you don’t ship extra cpu power for unused features.

Tesla did the opposite though—centralized processing and over allotted cpu cycles by also made it easy to upgrade via software only.