Supply Chain & Inventory Optimisation

OperationsIntermediate60 min
Workflow Format (Staged)

This challenge runs as a locked, multi-stage workflow simulation. You submit one stage at a time. Once submitted, a stage becomes read-only and later stages build on your earlier decisions.

Stage 1: Triage Policy
Locked after submit

Define your severity rubric, escalation rule, and response-order logic before any live incident intake begins.

Required inputs

  • Severity rubric
  • Escalation rule
  • Response-order logic
Stage 2: Live Intake
Locked after submit

Classify, route, and record incident intake using the policy you defined. Treat this as a locked checkpoint.

Required inputs

  • Classification decisions
  • Routing + owner assignments
  • Proof signal note (what would you send/record?)
Stage 3: Constraint Injection
Locked after submit

New constraints arrive. Reprioritize without rewriting earlier work, and explain what changes and why.

Required inputs

  • Reprioritized queue
  • SLA + escalation updates
  • Tradeoff explanation
Stage 4: Verification
Locked after submit

Demonstrate verification discipline: identify a borderline or misclassified issue, and show what evidence changed your stance.

Required inputs

  • One borderline/misclassified issue
  • What evidence changed the classification?
  • Manual verification of one priority decision
Stage 5: Final Artifact
Locked after submit

Submit the final artifact: executive update + SOP summary + final prioritization that aligns with earlier stages.

Required inputs

  • Executive update
  • Public SOP / incident handling page summary
  • Final prioritization summary

What gets graded (later)

The backend grader will score workflow quality across stages: decision quality, verification, consistency, and the clarity of your final artifact.

Scenario
You’re the Operations Lead during a promotion week. Incidents arrive over time (supplier delays, capacity warnings, QA issues, customer escalations). You must prioritize, route, and escalate under changing constraints with an audit trail.
Workflow Checkpoints + Outputs
  • 1.Triage Policy
  • 2.Live Intake
  • 3.Constraint Injection
  • 4.Verification
  • 5.Final Artifact
  • 6.Triage queue
  • 7.Severity classification rubric
  • 8.Owner assignment + SLA / due time
  • 9.Escalation status + evidence field
  • 10.Session token field (conceptual for now)
Session Requirements
  • Stage-locked submissions (no editing after submit)
  • At least one manual verification checkpoint (Stage 4)
  • One-action final decision + executive update (Stage 5)
  • Explicit “what could be wrong?” risk checkpoint
  • Proof-of-work signal (simulated text for now; backend wiring later)
Dataset Actions

Dataset access stays locked until you start the workflow session (timer start).

Open Stage 1 to start the timer and unlock the first dataset.

Available Before Stage 1

0 files
Start the workflow session to unlock datasets.

Only the initial dataset is shown here. Additional files unlock inside the workflow as you move through stages.

Allowed Tools

AI Tools

ClaudeChatGPTPython with AI assistanceNotion AI

Analysis Tools

ExcelGoogle Sheets
Scoring Rubric
Data accuracy30 pts

Correct on-time rates, correct holding cost totals

Problem identification25 pts

Correctly identifies Halifax + SupplierD as the core issue

Recommendations25 pts

Two specific, data-backed actions (not generic advice)

Communication20 pts

VP memo is professional, specific, and escalation-ready

Workflow Session

Start Stage 1 when you’re ready. Each stage locks after submission and later stages build on earlier decisions.

Work stage-by-stage. Use explicit headers and keep decisions consistent across stages.

Recommended Time

60 min