top | item 47025512 (no title) osigurdson | 14 days ago I would think the incentives to produce things no one wants would already be pretty low. discuss order hn newest JasonADrury|14 days ago Supplier MOQs can create significant incentives to overproduce. For example, you get 9000 things someone wants and 1000 that no-one wants.This can be profitable for the customer, if they can't just easily get rid of those 1000 they can't sell, it's presumably less profitable. osigurdson|14 days ago Presumably the split between things people want and do not want is not known a priori. It seems the EU is trying to legislate into an existence a solution to an unsolvable equation. load replies (1)
JasonADrury|14 days ago Supplier MOQs can create significant incentives to overproduce. For example, you get 9000 things someone wants and 1000 that no-one wants.This can be profitable for the customer, if they can't just easily get rid of those 1000 they can't sell, it's presumably less profitable. osigurdson|14 days ago Presumably the split between things people want and do not want is not known a priori. It seems the EU is trying to legislate into an existence a solution to an unsolvable equation. load replies (1)
osigurdson|14 days ago Presumably the split between things people want and do not want is not known a priori. It seems the EU is trying to legislate into an existence a solution to an unsolvable equation. load replies (1)
JasonADrury|14 days ago
This can be profitable for the customer, if they can't just easily get rid of those 1000 they can't sell, it's presumably less profitable.
osigurdson|14 days ago