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Supply-chain agents

DC orchestration, vendor SLA enforcement, inbound exception handling.

Shipped against
  • Big-box retailer
  • Off-price retailer
  • Specialty CPG
  • Online grocery operator
  • Apparel omnichannel banner

Anonymised — clients under NDA

+18%
inbound on-time
10 wks
to production MVP
6-person
squad with buyer + DC ops

The context

Retail supply chain runs on the daily orchestration of DC operations, vendor SLAs, and inbound exception management. The team is split between the buyer (who owns the vendor relationship) and the DC operator (who owns the inbound).

Why it doesn't scale today

When a vendor misses an SLA, the system surfaces the symptom (a late truck) but not the fix (a reroute, a substitution, a buyer escalation). The buyer and operator both end up reacting to the same problem with different tools.

What we ask in week one

  • iWhere can an agent take action autonomously vs. escalate to your buyer or your DC operator?
  • iiHow do we route the right exception to the right role on your team with the context already assembled?
  • iiiWhat does vendor SLA enforcement look like when the agent has substitution and reroute options pre-evaluated against your live inbound?
  • ivHow do we measure success in your inbound on-time and shrink — not the alert count on a dashboard?

What we build

Agents orchestrate the inbound, evaluate substitutions and reroutes against current cost and capacity, enforce vendor SLAs with packaged escalation evidence, and surface exceptions to the right role with the right context. Buyer and operator stop fighting the same fire from different angles.

Why we're the right squad

Our supply-chain practice has done this at retail scale. The integration with the existing OMS/WMS is where most projects die — we have shipped past that line many times.

What you keepA system, not a prototype
  • Documentation

    Architecture, data contracts, deployment runbooks, eval criteria — written for the team that owns it next.

  • Infrastructure

    IaC, monitoring, rollback, on-call playbooks. Standard tooling, not bespoke.

  • Evals

    Eval harness + prompts + labelled fixtures + regression suite. Extends with your team.

  • Architect anchor

    A lead architect from our side stays in your Slack for at least 90 days post-handoff.

Want to scope this for your team?

We'll come back with a pod composition, a 2-week discovery sprint plan, and a price — measured against the KPI you care about, not against activity.

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