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... BMW press releases have some information.
Nice link... "planned sales target of 200,000 units in the year 2020"
Good luck with that. What could be good news for some of us is that if BMW produced enough new motorcycles to fill their forecast, and then sales dropped suddenly, then the dealer showrooms may be flooded with unsold bikes. And that will force BMW to offer deep discounts at some point.
The B-King was basically an unfaired Hayabusa, right?
With just-in-time inventory,...
With just-in-time inventory, I'm pretty sure the old days of over production are in the past.
As an example, consider sedan sales. They've been dropping like a rock for several years, but there's no over supply at the dealerships.
Not quite that simple. There are lots of bikes in the pipeline, lots of parts on order, lots of contracts in place. You can't shut it off like a switch. And, the bikes are worth more when completed than the sum of the value of the parts. One of the challenges with just-in-time deliveries is finding a place to store the parts if you shut down an assembly line. So, they don't do that. Rather, they slow or stop reordering parts, and then continue to manufacture finished goods until the pipeline is cleared out.
There is a possibility that companies may revisit some of their outsourcing decisions in the months and years ahead.
Excluding some medical products (maybe), inventory will come from the cheapest supplier. Quarterly profit margin drives the stock market and CEO pay.
In the car and vehicle world, it will be interesting to watch the possible production shift from BMW MFG SC to the new plant in Mexico.
I actually suspect a paradigm shift for some categories in the coming years. Now that we have proven that long complicated supply chains depending on foreign good-will are unreliable to the point of destroying businesses we may rethink their value. It is likely to become more apparent as we struggle to get medicines in the short term and then the even longer term. We could debate this notion forever but only time will tell.
Nope. Just look at the Stock Market. This is the best of all possible worlds
Any relationship between the stock market and the real economy at the present moment is delusional except for the folks who have figured out how to profit on both upturns and downturns. So the current volatility serves their purposes well. You know, the folks like Pharma Bro, Bernie Madoff, and the folks at Enron. They may be your heroes. They are not mine.
Excluding some medical products (maybe), inventory will come from the cheapest supplier. Quarterly profit margin drives the stock market and CEO pay.
In the car and vehicle world, it will be interesting to watch the possible production shift from BMW MFG SC to the new plant in Mexico.
In my old job there was a constant battle between Quality (which wanted material to come from the best value supplier), and Procurement (which wanted stuff from the cheapest supplier). What gets measured, happens. Once Quality got extra inspection costs, return of defective product costs, and cost of production delays included in the total procurement cost, things improved.