> tons of supplies that sat around for months doing nothing

This happens a lot. My old job had at least a million dollars worth of datacenter equipment just sitting around for over a year waiting for "resources" (eg. people they refused to hire more of and time they demanded be spent elsewhere). Then they got bought out by a much larger company and suddenly it was very important that the months-long process of standing up the new in parallel, testing, fixing, cutting over, fixing more, and decommissioning the old be completed in two weeks. Buncha clowns.