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The Detroit News
The Detroit News
The global auto industry just can’t catch a break: automobile wire harnesses made on picnic tables because of a war in Ukraine, semiconductor plants halting production from an earthquake in Japan and backed-up ports in China amid rising COVID-19 cases are straining vehicle supply chains — again. Forecasters expect millions of vehicles will be cut from production schedules this year and next as these events keep pushing automaker procurement departments, more than two years on, to work overtime navigating the bottlenecks. And that may be forcing automakers to rethink the just-in-time delivery m…