Having the right product at the right place and time at the right cost and quality is one of the biggest challenges
Context: Having the right product at the right place and time at the right cost and quality is one of the biggest challenges an operations and supply chain manager encounters. To successfully meet customer needs, supply chain professionals must accurately forecast and support operational needs. This requires robust forecasting, inventory, and information management capability.
Discussion:
Based on your own personal experience or a related Internet search, identify a time when you experienced or witnessed a fulfillment failure. Assess why it happened.
As you dissect the fulfillment failure, consider how each of the following may have contributed to the problem.
Forecasting—that is, did managers underestimate demand? If so, what went wrong?
Inventory— that is, did decision makers run too lean, leading to a stock out or shortage? If so, what went wrong?
Information— that is, did managers have all the information they needed to make good decisions? If not, why not? What information is accurate and readily available?
What else might have contributed to the fulfillment?
If the experience you are sharing comes from your work experience, please share how you and your company resolved the issue. What did you do to fix the underlying causes in order to make sure your company did not suffer a similar fulfillment failure again? If you did not find the fix, how would you advise the company to fix their issue so it could not happen again.
Organize your post with the following headers:
Brief description of the failure
Dissection to root cause: (Forecasting, Inventory, Information, Other considerations)
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