Whether due to a lack of time, resources, capability, or budgeting, literature fulfillment programs at any level of disregard will encounter difficulties with inventory management and fulfillment performance. Stock-outs, overstock situations, and problems with obsolescence and revisions can occur contributing to common and costly fulfillment breakdown. Simply put, missing, short, incorrect, late, lost, or otherwise faulty orders and literature will each generate its own set of predicaments and missed opportunities in terms of sales, customer satisfaction, and accountability.