First, I'm going to apologize for all the recent WW1 threads, I am just reading a lot lately and finding some interesting POD's
What if the industrialist influenced Ludendorff had not implimented the disasterous Hindenburg program? For whatever reason, he tried to radically improve war production by eliminating the War Ministry's influence on armaments and let his cronies control production, resulting in the removal of 1 million men from the army (workers), a severe coal/transportation shortage, massive shortages in just about every necessary resource, as factory construction cosumed both coal and steel in large amounts and none ever openned (though there was not enough coal to POWER any of them).
In fact, several members of the war ministry including Rathenau even stated that German production would have been HIGHER just using existing factories that were being expanded. Would it have made a difference?