Handle "Just Add Inventory"
Respond to inventory-as-buffer pressure with service, cash, and root-cause discipline.
A senior stakeholder wants to add inventory broadly after a visible service miss, even though the family already has slow-moving stock in the wrong packs. Just add inventory across the family so this service miss does not happen again next month. I agree we need to protect service. Before we add broad stock, let us identify whether the miss was quantity, mix, timing, lead time, or allocation. Then we can place the smallest buffer where it protects the actual risk and show the cash consequence. The response acknowledges the service concern, avoids sounding anti-customer, and shifts the decision from emotional…
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