Walk the Shortage Week Without Creating Next Month’s Panic
Sequence shortage decisions so replenishment, allocation, and communication stay proportional to the real exposure.
The moment The valve is already below trigger. Actual lead time is now 12 days, not 9, and the service team has three committed orders inside that window. If you improvise from here, every decision upstream will over-read your urgency. The sequence Replenish → quantify → allocate → communicate Shortages get more expensive when teams debate fairness before they restore the replenishment clock and size the actual gap. Shortcut to avoid Freeze everything or expedite everything before you know the real gap. You contain the shortage without teaching the chain that baseline demand exploded. The best shortage plan is specific…
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