Shadow prices for bottleneck decisions

Model complexity should earn its place through better decisions, not novelty. This article explores shadow prices for bottleneck decisions and the baselines needed to establish its incremental value.

Practitioner lens

A responsible implementation of shadow prices for bottleneck decisions includes a fallback policy, approval thresholds, model-version records and a way to explain infeasible or conflicting recommendations.

First experiment

Separate model-generated proposals from approved actions; preserve a safe fallback when inputs are missing.

This is an original educational brief. It is a starting point for discussion, not a claim that one technique fits every supply chain.