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 (this may require research).

Be sure to choose an example that allows you to showcase the analysis and application. The fulfillment failure must be solved through the supply chain analysis.

As you dissect the fulfillment failure, address how each of the following may have contributed to the problem.

• Forecastingthat 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 (note: this will be based on what you found in your research).

Organize your post with the following headers:

Brief description of the failure

Dissection to root cause: (Forecasting, Inventory, Information, Other considerations)

The Fix so it never happens again

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