You can reduce line stoppages and replenish needed materials to the production line.

So the firm produced a new line of trousers, dubbed “bike-to-work pants”, with built-in reflective materials that make wearers more visible to traffic while cycling at night.

This week Saab’s assembly line in Trollhattan suffered the latest in a series of stoppages because unpaid suppliers had halted shipments of parts and materials.