Use case · Operations/OPS
The problem raised while it is still cheap.
Projected, not actual: the shortage, the slip or the margin drift named while it is still cheap to fix.
Reads projected, not actual·Named cause, not an alert·Prompts, does not act
Seen two weeks earlier
Named owner, not a dashboard
ILLUSTRATIVE · NOT REAL FIGURES
The old way/01
Reacting at the point of failure.
Try it/02
Move the lead time.
6 days of room. A material request is raised inside the ceiling, with the cause named, by day 6.
ILLUSTRATIVE · NOT REAL FIGURES
The limits/03
What the agent may and may not do.
May read
Stock, orders, projects, jobs, assets, and quality records across the business
May do
Raise material requests within a ceiling, and surface findings with a named cause
May not do
Commit spend, reschedule production, change a price, or close a finding
Ceilings
A value limit on any request it raises, per period and per warehouse
Ownership
Every finding routes to a named person, not to a dashboard
Suppression
A dismissed finding stays dismissed until the underlying figure changes materially
Trail
The records behind each finding are named, so it can be checked rather than believed
Measure it/04
How to tell it worked.
Runs on/05
The modules it spans.
Next to this/06
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