Safety Stock Optimiser: what this AI agent does and how to use it

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What it does

The Safety Stock Optimiser agent is the specialist for this job: suggests safety stock per SKU from demand variability and an assumed lead time and service level.

Who it's for

Your team. It runs in the console for your staff and through the REST API. It is a team agent, so it is never exposed to shoppers.

Questions it answers

Ask it in any of our languages, for example:

• "Safety stock for our top 10 sellers"
• "Which SKUs are below their safety stock?"
• "Safety stock for handbags with a 14-day lead time"

The live demo shows these as sample prompts in your language, on a fictional store's data.

How it works

1. It understands the question in the language it was written in, even when your catalog is in another language.
2. It looks things up with tools, never from memory:

• Read-only sql over your retail data (sandboxed per workspace)
• Stock-out risk and days of cover

3. It answers from your data, in your brand voice and currency, and shows which tools it used.
4. Rules stay in code. Prices, eligibility and permissions come from your data and settings; the agent explains them and can't invent them. Why this matters.

The data it needs

Orders, Order lines, Inventory. As soon as these tables are loaded, the agent is ready to switch on. Files can use your own column names: they're mapped automatically. See Connect your data.

Works well with

• Phantom Inventory Detector: Flags items showing stock in the system but not selling, so stores can recount them.
• Seasonal Build Planner: Plans pre-season stock builds by category from monthly sales patterns and current stock.
• New Store Opening Stock Plan: Builds an opening stock list for a new store from best sellers and category mix.
• Auto-replenishment Engine: Proposes replenishment orders from recent sales velocity and stock, for a buyer to approve.
• Promotion Forecaster: Forecasts the uplift of a planned promotion from how past promotions performed.

Your team can use them side by side in the console, or call each one through the API.

Turn it on

1. Load the data it needs.
2. Install Safety Stock Optimiser from the Agent catalog and add your own instructions (guide).
3. Test it in the Playground, in every language you serve.
4. Invite your team or call it from your own systems.

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