“Now,” Leo continued, “what if the river suddenly surges to 300 units per hour for three days, but the reservoir can still only drain at 100? The water doesn’t disappear. It backs up. It finds weak spots. Those weak spots—where inventory piles up on receiving docks, in quality-check lanes, on staging pallets—are in the inflow process.”
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
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 . “Now,” Leo continued, “what if the river suddenly