Ok so I am a bit suspicious

[Plymouthy Adams]

but really, a certain company makes a glue that is to bond to anything with what one might call a 'gorilla grip'....BUT...you open the package and their own label is falling off........?

Edited May 16, 2023 by Plymouthy Adams

[desoto1939]

the issue is that the gorilla forgot to put the glue on the label because he saw a mouse and he got scared.

 

Rich

[pflaming]

Desoto, that is bad and that ain’t good. K

[keithb7]

Here’s the stripped down simple, quick explanation:
 

 

The manufacturer has several silos within their corporation. The glue crew is just responsible to make the glue. They are not to concern themselves with what’s going on over in packaging or procurement departments. The packaging team has a different  set of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to get their annual bonus. They are to package-up the glue as cheap as possible and maintain a higher level of profit than the glue crew. If the glue crew can hammer out 100O liters of glue per day for 365 days per year average, they get their annaul bonus. The fact that they only work 5 days/week is factored-in.
 

Procurement people are to buy the supplies for the glue crew to actually make the glue. They factor-in 85% production machinery uptime and production. They also need the supplies to arrive “just in time” for production so there is no inventory costs. Quite often the supplies arrive late so the glue crew comes on on overtime to meet their weekly production target. The procurement team orders enough supplies to make about 850 or so litres of glue per day.  Yet the whole supply chain has never really recovered from covid and a shortage of workers.  So the glue crew can’t meet their target and won’t get their annual bonus.

 

The supply chain team blames the packaging people for not getting all of their annual bonus. Packaging costs are too high. The packaging team switches to bulk purchase of UHU glue stix to secure the  branding labels. Not only saving money, but the environment too. You see the UHU sticks are water soluble and do not come from a cobalt mine in Uganda. Meanwhile they only get 25% of their annual bonus. Yet they are salary not hourly employees. So no overtime.
 

The accountants withold un-realized losses this quarter to keep stock prices up. Meanwhile the executives are up in the boardroom celebrating massive profits. Each of them getting 200% of their target bonus for the year.  Perhaps a 3rd recreational lot is in the  cards later this year. 
 

Simply, this is why the label falls off. 

Edited May 20, 2023 by keithb7