From JIT to JIC

今天無意間看到一篇文章，

過去我們在供應鏈中總是追求著JIT (Just-in-Time)

而現在，開始改變了

我們要邁向"JIC"的時代-- Just in case

以下是我看到的文章的幾個重點：

The SAP study shows that over half (58%) of UK organisations admit their supply chain needs improving and that the majority (84%) are planning to move from well-worn ‘just in time’ (JIT) supply chain models to a tech-driven ‘just in case’ (JIC) approach.

For today’s consumers “even overnight shipping is considered late and hourly tracking updates are expected”.

“The challenge is to create a standard around measuring resilience. Businesses need to know which nodes of their supply chain are most vulnerable.”

原文網址：https://supplychaindigital.com/digital-supply-chain/sap-report-supply-chains-shifting-to-just-in-case-model

在讀完上述文章後，為了對JIC的KPI指標有更深入的認識，所以又去搜尋關於TTR與TTS的說明，以下連結為我的延伸閱讀文章。

在過去，供應鏈、庫存管理追求的是「及時化」，太早、太晚都不好，最好是所有流程都可以無縫接軌，每個關卡之間的等待時間應趨近於零。但隨著covid-19的影響，對供應鏈產生了莫大的衝擊，因為封城的關係，原本的Lead Time都變得無法估計，因此衍生出了新的觀念：JIC。