TOKYO -- Global automakers are increasingly shifting away from traditional practices where they only keep a limited stock of key components, with the COVID-19 pandemic and international tensions stoking shortages of technology such as chips.
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Toyota ditches signature 'just-in-time' to fight chip crunch
Automakers asking suppliers to boost inventories
Toyota has asked some of its suppliers to increase their semiconductor inventory levels from the conventional three months to five. © Kyodo
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