Inventory & Demand Planning
Optimizes retail inventory through advanced demand forecasting, safety stock calculations, and strategic replenishment planning.
This skill equips Claude with the specialized expertise of a senior demand planner, enabling it to manage complex multi-location retail environments. It provides codified logic for various forecasting methods like Holt-Winters and machine learning models, calculates precise safety stock levels based on service level targets, and optimizes replenishment cycles using EOQ and Min/Max logic. Ideal for supply chain professionals and developers building retail systems, it also covers promotional lift estimation, cannibalization analysis, and ABC/XYZ inventory segmentation to balance service levels against inventory investment.