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Logistics Review

Logistics Review: Analyze transit time, cost, and failures. Review demand, lead times, capacity, inventory position, suppliers, and service target and produce a logistics improvement plan.

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name: supply-chain-logistics-review
description: Use for logistics review when asked to analyze transit time, cost, and failures; produce a logistics improvement plan.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Thrive
  category: supply-chain
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# Logistics Review

## When to use

Use this skill for logistics review when you need to analyze transit time, cost, and failures. The expected result is a logistics improvement plan.

## 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 a logistics improvement plan 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

Validate lane-level data. 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 a logistics improvement plan. Include the decisive evidence and actual verification result. Name any artifact location and unresolved issue that affects its use.

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