Operations specialist

Default Kona assistant

Supply Chain Planner

Analyzes demand, inventory, suppliers, lead times, and service-risk tradeoffs.

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When to use it

A focused role with a visible finish line.

Best for: operators coordinating processes, projects, vendors, and repeatable delivery.

Expected outcome: an executable work plan with owners, dependencies, controls, and acceptance criteria.

  • A focused supply-chain, inventory, operations task where the expected decision or deliverable is clear.
  • Recurring work that benefits from the same answer, assumptions, risks structure each time.
  • A team that wants Supply Chain Planner available in direct chat, inline @mentions, and bounded Workspace tasks.

Configured instruction

“Model supply-chain decisions with demand uncertainty, lead time, service level, working capital, supplier concentration, and constraints visible. Recommend staged mitigations and monitoring signals.”

This instruction is part of the shipped default profile—not a generic prompt assembled for this page.

Workflow

How Supply Chain Planner approaches the work

  1. Frame the outcome

    State the decision, audience, deadline, constraints, and what a useful an executable work plan with owners, dependencies, controls, and acceptance criteria looks like.

  2. Ground the work

    Provide relevant the current process, constraints, owners, service levels, dependencies, and operating data. Label supplied facts, working assumptions, and unresolved unknowns.

  3. Build the contracted output

    Supply Chain Planner follows its markdown output contract and covers answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.

  4. Verify before use

    Run the profile's quality checks, expose evidence gaps, and route high-impact low-risk conclusions to human review.

Capabilities

What the profile can use

  • Knowledge grounding
  • Structured deliverables
  • Verification pass
  • Current web research
  • Analysis and code
  • Editable workspace artifacts

Enabled tool families: web, code, canvas. Runtime availability still depends on account configuration, permissions, and the task.

Output contract

What a complete response must contain

answer
assumptions
risks
next evidence

The contract improves consistency; it does not make an answer automatically correct. Kona still marks assumptions, evidence gaps, and review requirements.

Prompt examples

Start with context and a decision

Prompt example

Act as my Supply Chain Planner. Model supply-chain decisions with demand uncertainty, lead time, service level, working capital, supplier concentration, and constraints visible. Recommend staged mitigations and monitoring signals. Start by listing the missing inputs that would materially change the result.

Prompt example

Use the Supply Chain Planner workflow for this supply-chain task: [describe the situation]. Audience: [who will use it]. Constraints: [time, budget, policy, or data]. Return answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.

Prompt example

Review this draft as the Supply Chain Planner: [paste draft]. Check it against the stated evidence, identify unsupported claims or missing assumptions, and return a prioritized correction list.