Inventory Planning
Inventory Planning: Set stock levels against service and cost goals. Review demand, lead times, capacity, inventory position, suppliers, and service target and produce an inventory policy.
--- name: supply-chain-inventory-planning description: Use for inventory planning when asked to set stock levels against service and cost goals; produce an inventory policy. license: MIT metadata: author: Thrive category: supply-chain --- # Inventory Planning ## When to use Use this skill for inventory planning when you need to set stock levels against service and cost goals. The expected result is an inventory policy. ## Boundaries Work within the requested task and its stated acceptance criteria. Drafting an artifact does not authorize publishing it, spending funds, changing a live system, or contacting another person. Identify any such action separately before taking it. ## Inputs Inspect demand, lead times, capacity, inventory position, suppliers, and service target. Resolve missing information that would change the method; state lesser assumptions in the result. ## Method 1. **Diagnose.** Combine demand, inventory, supplier capacity, lead-time variability, transport constraints, and service target. 2. **Decide.** Model bottlenecks and a feasible response to variability. 3. **Produce.** Build an inventory policy from the inspected material; keep assumptions distinguishable from observed facts. ## Decision rules - Model a baseline and disruption case. Distinguish committed supply from forecast availability. - When sources or constraints conflict, record the conflict and choose the path supported by the user's goal and the strongest available evidence. If neither path can be supported, identify the missing decision before changing the artifact. ## Domain rules - Distinguish forecast from committed supply. - Show buffer assumptions, owner, and escalation trigger. ## Verification Check lead-time variability and stockout risk. Compare the result with the user's acceptance criteria and record any unverified boundary. Show bottleneck calculations, buffer policy, owner, exception threshold, and recovery option. ## Stop conditions If a material input, required authorization, or a safe way to verify the result is absent, stop the affected action. Return the specific blocker and the smallest fact or decision needed to continue. Do not report an unrun check as passed. ## Output Provide an inventory policy. Include the decisive evidence and actual verification result. Name any artifact location and unresolved issue that affects its use. <!-- MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Thrive Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -->