
462 Principles of Supply Chain Management
This early warning by Davis carries over to the present era. Software bugs are still
prevalent and embedded in the products we use and, hence, are spread throughout
the supply chain. In the automotive industry, software bugs have been attributed to
brake problems in the Toyota Prius (Jenkins 2010) and entertainment system glitches
in Ford and Lincoln brand vehicles (Muller 2012). As automobiles become more sophis-
ticated and embedded with complicated software, the number of software code prob-
lems is expected to increase. “Today’s cars are like rolling computers. Some vehicles
have nearly 100 million ...