Inventory imbalance heatmaps

A supply chain idea becomes valuable when it changes a decision at the right moment. This brief explores inventory imbalance heatmaps as a way to connect signals with a planner’s next action.

Practitioner lens

The human workflow is part of inventory imbalance heatmaps: specify who reviews the signal, what evidence they see and how they record a decision to accept or override it.

First experiment

Define a human review rule for low-confidence cases and keep an auditable reason for each override.

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