Leadership is often about making decisions before your options start to disappear. That idea shows up clearly in how organizations manage their workforce. And the fact is that the damage rarely stays “in the warehouse.” Bad inventory data turns into maintenance downtime, schedule slips, excess and obsolete inventory, write offs, shrink, and safety risk when the wrong part or wrong condition gets issued.

Article by Don Lee, Shanta Sloan, and Rosita Johnson Photo courtesy of Kent Savage “Project material staging” – I googled the term and...