Comment (adding more info, clarity, ideas or debating their response in a respectful manner) to this post: Manage Discussion Entry I don't feel like there was a sufficient project management for this cut over. There are many things that they could have done to help mitigate the significant issues that arose during the cut over. During the planning stage, a SWOT analysis could have been done that would have determined having one warehouse as a threat. In my line of work, when we determine a threat, we make sure to have a well thought out contingency plan in place to make sure we can still meet customer needs. A contingency plan could have helped mitigate a lot of the issues that were seen in the supply chain and could have made this whole situation avoidable. A better project management process could have help the project team determine all of the things that could go wrong before they do. When you cut over from 6 warehouses to 1, that is a huge change to the system and needs to be treated as such. One strategy that is often used is to allow the new supplier to start delivering within the system