A supply chain failure is defined as an interruption caused by external or internal operations that may have significant impact on an organisation's quality, delivery or cost impact to clients. In most cases, the blame is placed on external suppliers with no appropriate root cause examination. You are employed as a managing director in any chosen South African manufacturing company. Discuss the below list of causes of failure that can happen in you chosen South African manufacturing company and provide examples.

1. Supply failure

2. human failure

3.product and service design failure

4. organisational failure

5.customer failure