Demand Sensing Agent
Watches sell-out, orders, and stock continuously and keeps the demand picture current.
removesForecasts rebuilt by hand from scattered, stale inputs.
All workflows
Forecasting, S&OP & inventory
Demand and supply decisions, made while they still matter.
Planners lose their weeks to collecting inputs and rebuilding forecasts while the market keeps moving. The agentic demand workflow senses signals continuously, isolates the exceptions that matter, models the options, and routes the consequential calls to a person, before the stockout, not after.
Agentic Demand & Supply Workflow
- AgentSenseSell-out, orders, stock signals
- AgentDetectExceptions isolated from noise
- AgentInvestigateCause traced across systems
- AgentRecommendOptions modelled with impact
- Human approvalApproveThe planner makes the call
- AgentRebalanceOrders and allocations updated
- AgentLearnForecast assumptions revised
One run, end to end
Forecast exception to rebalanced stock
The expensive failures in supply are the quiet ones: an exception nobody saw until it became a stockout or a write-off. Here is one forecast exception, from signal to a rebalanced position.
Forecast exception to rebalanced stock
A demand signal breaks from forecast. Watch the agents isolate it, trace the cause, model the options, and hand the planner a decision instead of a data hunt.
Manual
175 min
Agentic
4 min
44xfaster
Demand Sensing Agentstep 1/6
Sell-out running 18% above forecast in one region.
Inside the workflow
The agents are components. The workflow is the unit.
These are the agents that typically operate inside this workflow. Yours will differ in detail; each one exists to serve the workflow's outcome, not to be a product of its own.
Forecast Exception Agent
Isolates the exceptions that matter from noise, with the evidence attached.
removesDeviations buried in averages until they become stockouts.
Inventory Rebalancing Agent
Models rebalancing options with cost and risk, and proposes the best one for approval.
removesStock stuck in the wrong place while another region sells out.
Stockout Prevention Agent
Projects stock cover forward per SKU-location and flags risk while there is time to act.
removesOut-of-stocks discovered from lost sales, not before them.
S&OP Preparation Agent
Prepares the consensus view: assumptions, gaps, scenarios, and open decisions.
removesThe S&OP pack assembled by hand every cycle.
Supplier Exception Agent
Tracks inbound exceptions, chases confirmations, and escalates what threatens service.
removesLate POs and short shipments handled over email.
Systems
Where execution happens.
The workflow connects to the systems you already run. Yours not listed? It almost certainly connects.
SAPOracleMicrosoft DynamicsExcelDMSPower BIEDI
Measurement
What this workflow is accountable for.
Outcome categories, measured against your own baseline. Never a promised number.
- Forecast accuracy
- Service level
- Stock risk
- Inventory exposure
- Planning time
- Response speed
exceptions surfaced with evidence while they can still be fixed, and planners deciding instead of assembling data.
Is this the workflow worth transforming first?
The Workflow Audit answers that with your own economics: what the workflow costs today, what an agentic version could be worth, and what production requires.
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