That probably would be back when I was working for a large pharmaceutical company.
I was one of the supervisors for a materials testing laboratory that supplied all the basically
material for manufacturing and the management decided that we could switch to lean manufacturing
so we didn't have as much stock in kind of standing waiting for being tested.
However they hadn't kind of taken into account that the testing lab ran five days a week,
manufacturing ran seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
Not having a reserve of materials meant that manufacturing would then wait into the batch
of materials we were testing.
The amount of pressure that put on the testing lab that was very small, the amount of kind
of disagreements we had and the lack of listening to those who were directly impacted and how
it was going to actually all work.