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The operations desk

What do we make, stock and buy next month?

Planning that starts with what customers will buy, not with what purchasing already ordered — and a desk that watches stock, suppliers and prices between planning cycles.

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Fig. 1 — How the operations desk works — sources are pulled in, experts' rules and deterministic code produce every figure, and only then does AI explain it.
Prototype

Demand-led S&OP

How much do we need to make, once we account for the market?

  • Business heads own the demand number; production and buying follow from it
  • Adjusts the statistical baseline for signals the ERP can't see — season, crop cycle, input prices
  • Every adjustment is logged with who made it and why
October plan demand → production · KLDemo
Kharif harvest ↑ tractor use Diwali, 20 Oct Base oil +6% MoM
Product familyBaselineSignalsDemandIn stockTo make
Engine oils4,620+4.3%4,8201,3103,510
Gear & transmission1,940—1,9408701,070
Industrial oils2,760−5.4%2,6101,5401,070
Greases380—380410None

Industrial oils cut 5.4%: customers are expected to delay orders while base oil prices pass through. Adjusted by the industrial business head, 24 Sep.

Live today

Stock ageing

How much cash is sitting in stock nobody is buying?

  • Valued stock by age bucket, plant and depot, from the valuation reports
  • Names the SKUs behind the oldest buckets
  • Suggests where slow stock would actually sell
Finished goods by age 30 Sep · ₹65.2 Cr totalDemo
0–30 days₹38.2 Cr
31–60 days₹14.6 Cr
61–90 days₹6.1 Cr
91–180 days₹3.9 Cr
Over 180₹2.4 Cr

Bars on a ₹0–40 Cr scale.

₹2.4 Cr over 180 days across 11 SKUs. Three of them sell steadily at the Chennai depot — transferring clears ₹0.9 Cr without a discount.

Can be built

Depot replenishment

Which depot runs out first, and can another one cover it?

  • Days of cover per depot from live stock and the sell-through rate
  • Proposes transfers between depots before an emergency production run
  • Prices the move against freight, so the cheaper fix wins
Engine oils · days of cover target 12–20 daysDemo
Silvassa plant38 daysOverstocked
Chennai depot6 daysRuns out 6 Oct
Kolkata depot14 daysIn range
Delhi depot11 daysJust under

Move 40 KL from Silvassa to Chennai by 3 Oct. Freight ₹2.6 L, against ₹11 L for an unplanned production run.

Can be built

Supplier lead times

Which suppliers are quietly getting slower?

  • Promised against actual lead time, from purchase orders and goods receipts
  • Catches the drift months before it causes a stock-out
  • Feeds the real lead time back into the production plan
Lead-time drift last 6 months · daysDemo
SupplierPromisedActualTrendDrift
Gulf Base Oils
Group II base oil		2129+8
PackRight Containers
HDPE drums		712+5
Additive Chem
Additive packages		1415+1

Plan still assumes 21 days for base oil. At 29, the November engine-oil run starts short by about 180 KL.

Can be built

Purchase price vs index

Are we paying more than the market for our biggest input?

  • What you paid against a published benchmark, month by month
  • Separates market moves from a supplier widening its margin
  • Gives purchasing a number to take into the negotiation
Base oil price ₹ thousand per KLDemo

September gap: ₹4,500 a KL above index on 2,300 KL bought — ₹1.04 Cr. The gap was ₹700 in April.

Prototype

Receipt and invoice matching

What did we receive that doesn't match what we were billed?

  • Matches purchase order, goods receipt and invoice line by line
  • Shows only the exceptions, with the rupee difference
  • Chases the supplier for invoices that never arrived
Matching exceptions 3 open · ₹11.4 LDemo
ReceiptIssueValueAge
GRN-8853
PackRight Containers		No invoice received₹6.1 L19 d
GRN-8841
Gulf Base Oils		Received 19.6 KL, billed 20.0 KL₹3.4 L12 d
GRN-8860
Additive Chem		Billed ₹412/kg, PO says ₹398/kg₹1.9 L5 d

Value is the invoice amount in question; for the short delivery, what's been billed but not received.

Agents on this desk

Between planning cycles, something is still watching.

Live today

MSME vendor compliance

Makes sure small suppliers are paid inside the 45-day statutory limit.

→ Payables
Can be built

Stock-out risk

Warns when any depot will run out before its next scheduled replenishment.

→ Supply planning
Can be built

Price above index

Raises when a supplier's price drifts more than 3% above the benchmark.

→ Purchasing
Prototype

Missing invoices

Chases suppliers when goods arrived but no invoice has in 15 days.

→ Accounts payable

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