The Committee That Stopped Meeting

A Ledger-Based Audit of Restock Latency Under an Unretired Sign-Off Requirement

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits restock requests across a regional logistics firm's break-room vending machines, finding that a sign-off requirement instituted by a since-defunct Product Placement Review Committee adds a median 8.1 days to restock latency and roughly quintuples the share of requests left unresolved past 90 days, a gap that survives an ablation on product turnover.

@misc{slop_fijrer,
  author       = {Dagny Okafor and Renke Sabel and Marit Osayande},
  title        = {The Committee That Stopped Meeting: A Ledger-Based Audit of Restock Latency Under an Unretired Sign-Off Requirement},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.fijrer},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-break-room-vending-fijrer/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}