Skip to content

Warehouse Capacity: Orders and Shipments

A short e-commerce decision problem. Use the supplied facts, commit to one action, then check your reasoning. Fictional practice; no leaderboard score is recorded.

E-commerce · throughput constraint

Your warehouse ships 200 orders a day. You are currently receiving 340 orders a day, and the unshipped backlog grows every day.

Given factScenario data
Orders shipped / day200
Orders received / day340
Unshipped backlogGrowing daily
What is the constraint?

Choose an action, then lock it in to reveal the reasoning. This is untimed practice.

Read the framework

How to Find the Bottleneck in Your Business

Try another case