What-if scenario starter prompts

Good operations intelligence narrows attention to the few choices that can change service, cost or risk. Here we look at what-if scenario starter prompts through that practical lens.

Practitioner lens

Evaluate what-if scenario starter prompts against a balanced scorecard: customer service, total cost, working capital and planner effort. Improvement in one measure can shift burden to another.

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.