Stress-test a stockout on gloves by proving that each hold window and restore rule can place delayed glove requests inside the planned fill lane, survive override pressure, and avoid trapping materials teams inside a green inventory slide that hides long-lived soft holds.
Glove stockouts often list an item checklist while leaving restore behavior, override authority, and abort ownership implicit. Those edges decide whether a late glove fill stays inside the materials packet or leaves a broken PPE path live under peak volume. The exercise should follow actual glove inventories, unit maps, and escalation paths rather than a clean inventory dashboard.
Build the stockout packet
List every glove stockout class with its response window, waive rule, override behavior, owners, and notification channels. Mark paths that cannot reverse without a manual amendment. Attach the last three gloves stockout incidents with raw timelines and any waivers. Include the source of truth for open glove counts during the observation window.
- A specialty glove class keeps a side-channel while the aggregate inventory dashboard stays green.
- A restore has already left a materials desk without a trusted stockout state.
- The primary glove dashboard lags beyond the planned observation window.
- An operator skips a stockout gate because a case cutoff is near.
- Automated and human divert messages collide under the new stockout rule.
For each drill, identify detection time, unit impact, containment, and the authority to force a gloves stockout rollback. Require commands and dashboard links in the runbook.
Close the spike with named owners
Name detect, hold, divert, abort, and restore owners with exit conditions. Write the point after which a stuck glove stockout would require a different PPE plan, then review whether that action is still permitted. Capture maximum acceptable dwell in measurable units, including which size classes are excluded from the stockout path and why.
Run the package in Pingpong with materials, infection control, perioperative, and nursing seats. Ask materials which unit decision becomes unsafe first if glove holds still stick after the claimed window. Ask infection control whether macros can absorb a forced override. Ask owners to show the exact glove version or export used as the exit condition.
Related reviews include the materials ops lead seat, a par level cut, the infection control lead seat, and a linen par cut. Browse the war-game decisions hub for adjacent controls.
Authorize the published stockout path only after a timed drill restores usable hold hygiene inside the documented budget without an undocumented manual step.