A company received an order for a large project that, after 22 weeks of progress, would require 400 square meters of factory space for assembly. The company was also tendering for another large project that, if ordered, would require a similar space in an overlapping time period. Only one such space is available. The company included the cost of renting the identified factory space on the open market in the quotation and project plan for the second project. In this case, only the presence of project plans for both the ordered line and the tendered one indicated the resource conflict.

For this discussion task you should critically discuss how this type of conflict occurs and what companies can do to try to deal with such a situation to prevent it from happening again, as well as resolving the current conflict. You should use relevant academic literature in order to support your answer.