Imagine this: You’re inside a bustling food manufacturer’s warehouse and the aroma of newly produced goods wafts through the air as workers navigate controlled chaos, racing against tight delivery windows to get product to customers. Then it happens — a bottleneck at the loading docks. Trailers sit idle as product piles up and the clock ticks mercilessly. Each passing minute of unproductivity burns through millions of dollars in lost revenue. In this high stakes scenario, what’s a manufacturer to do?