The consoles finally reached their slots. The phone cases shipped. But Marta never forgot the lesson.
“Now,” Leo continued, “what if the river suddenly surges to 300 units per hour for three days, but the reservoir can still only drain at 100? The water doesn’t disappear. It backs up. It finds weak spots. Those weak spots—where inventory piles up on receiving docks, in quality-check lanes, on staging pallets—are in the inflow process.” inflow inventory crack
He pointed to the report. “Here’s our crack: last Tuesday, we received a double shipment of gaming consoles. Our put-away crew could only handle 40% of it. The rest sat on the dock for 36 hours. In those 36 hours, new trucks arrived. Now we have consoles blocking the aisle for phone cases. The phone cases can’t get to their slots. So orders for phone cases are late. And because the consoles sat so long, we missed the return window for a damaged batch. We just took a $90,000 loss.” The consoles finally reached their slots
The next month, when a junior buyer asked her, “What’s the biggest risk to our supply chain?” she didn’t say fires or port strikes or demand spikes . “Now,” Leo continued, “what if the river suddenly
“Explain it to me like I’m a new hire,” Marta replied.
“It’s the inflow crack,” he said.