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Okko Oulasvirta
Retail & Commerce

Inventory Exception Manager

Interactive demonstration

One place where a looming stock-out is detected, explained and resolved — weighing a transfer, an expedite or a promotion change against what each actually costs.

The decision it supports

This line is about to sell out where it matters most. What is the least costly way to protect the sale?

What changes

Fewer lost sales on the lines that matter, less emergency freight, and replenishment decisions with a reason attached rather than a reflex.

Data domains

  • Products and range
  • Inventory and availability
  • Orders and fulfilment
  • Stores and estate
  • Suppliers
  • Pricing and promotions
  • Finance and margin
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The workflow

  1. 01A high-value line is forecast to stock out in the Helsinki store within days
  2. 02The same line is shown sitting as excess inventory at another location
  3. 03Expected demand, the current promotion and supplier lead times are assembled around it
  4. 04Four options are laid out — transfer stock, expedite the supplier, change the promotion, or accept the stock-out risk
  5. 05Each option is costed across inventory, expected demand, promotion impact, margin and store and customer impact
  6. 06The planner chooses an option
  7. 07A transfer, a purchase order change or a promotion adjustment is raised in the operational system
  8. 08The outcome is recorded and feeds the next forecast

Platform capabilities most relevant here

  • OneLake

    One governed copy of enterprise data that analytics, AI and applications can all build on.

  • Curated business entities

    Agree once what an order, an asset or a customer means — then reuse it everywhere.

  • Data science and ML

    Predict what is likely to happen next so people can act before it does.

  • AI functions

    Apply language models to business data as a normal part of a data pipeline.

  • Fabric Apps

    Build the application where the governed data already lives, instead of copying it out.

  • Application state

    Remember decisions, assignments and approvals — the things a report cannot hold.

  • Enterprise APIs

    Turn a decision into a change in the system that actually runs the process.

Not every application needs every capability. This is the subset that this decision actually depends on.

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