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 .
Marta stared at the blinking red line on her dashboard. It was called the "Inflow Velocity Anomaly," but everyone on the floor had a simpler name for it: the Crack. inflow inventory crack
“Explain it to me like I’m a new hire,” Marta replied. The next month, when a junior buyer asked
“It’s the inflow crack,” he said.
Marta grabbed a radio. “All supervisors, huddle at Bay 12. We’re declaring an inflow crack. Stop all non-critical inbound appointments for 48 hours. Shift 20 pickers to put-away. And Leo—calculate our absorption rate per hour. I want to know exactly how wide this crack is.” The next month
