Allocating the deliveries

The assignment

“The Lakeshore Mills and Oda Studio deliveries landed at the distribution centre this morning. Allocate what arrived across the four stores using our store weights and each store's size gaps, keep the centre's reserve, and send the fast movers first. Show me the transfers before you create them.”

What it used

• The receipts posted at the distribution centre over the last 2 days, 31 October 2026 to 1 November 2026 — 2 posted receipts — and the merchant's own receipts report for the same days, 2 rows.
• The 2 orders behind them and their 2 suppliers, read record by record.
• The 8 delivered sizes with their colours — 8 variant records.
• The stock position of every delivered size at the centre and at every store — 8 walks, one per size.
• The replenishment rules — each store's weight and display minimum, the centre's target and reserve — 18 rules in all, and the 21 transfer lanes.
• The city on each store's location record, 4 reads, so the follow-up's Ottawa is read and not guessed.
• The push desk — 1 call, bounded to the delivered sizes.
• The sell-through report by style over the 30 days to 1 November 2026, and the receipts report — 22 report pages.
• The open orders at the centre, 1 page, for what is still due on the sizes the centre holds back; the open transfers before and after.
• 73 calls in all, every one through the connector.

The store weights, each store's display minimum, the centre's target and reserve and the transfer lanes are the merchant's own replenishment rules. The shares are the push desk's: a size's spare at the centre is what stands above the centre's target and reserve, split across the stores by their weights in whole units, the units left over going to the stores with the largest remainders. The size-gap step, the window step and the order of the lines are the assistant's arithmetic over those shares: a store left below its display minimum takes a unit from the store that can best spare one, Yorkville's window run comes out of Ottawa's share where its own stock and share leave a size short, and the lines ride fast movers first by each style's days of supply.

The proposal

The two suppliers the assignment names had nothing posted at the distribution centre in the window: one of them has a single order from last December still part-received on file, one line of it short and long past its date; the other has no order open. What landed is what was due. 2 deliveries were posted at the Distribution centre between 31 October 2026 and 1 November 2026: 64 units, C$2,529.28 at landed cost, 8 sizes of two styles — Kids' style 432 (FW26) in Mustard, the kids' shoes, and Tops style 433 (FW26) in Rust, the tops. Every line was accepted whole.

After the receipts, 6 of the delivered sizes stand above the centre's band and 2 sit inside it. The centre's own rule keeps a target of 4 and a reserve of 2 of each size; what stands above both is spare and goes to the stores — 70 units in all. The two sizes inside the band are the shoes' 11 and 11.5: nothing of them is shared. The push desk gave no line for those two, so their target and reserve are read from the centre's rule itself — 4 and 2, the same band.

The two held sizes have more on the way: 4 of the 11 and 2 of the 11.5 are on order at the centre, both due on 19 November 2026. They stay at the centre until then.

The plan sends every spare unit — 70 — to the four stores. The shares are the push desk's own, by the store weights: Harbourline Yorkville 3, Harbourline Queen West 3, Harbourline Rideau 2 and Harbourline Sainte-Catherine 2; every store keeps a display minimum of 2 of a size. The size-gap step moved 0 units — after the shares every store holds its display minimum of every shared size — and the window step moved 0, so on every line the final quantity is the engine's share. The lines ride in the fast movers' order, the shoes first; the transfers, one per store, are listed by store weight.

Into Harbourline Yorkville — shop floor — weight 3, in Toronto: 22 units in 1 transfer; the engine's shares 22, the size-gap step 0, the window step 0.

Into Harbourline Queen West — shop floor — weight 3, in Toronto: 20 units in 1 transfer; the engine's shares 20, the size-gap step 0, the window step 0.

Into Harbourline Rideau — shop floor — weight 2, in Ottawa: 15 units in 1 transfer; the engine's shares 15, the size-gap step 0, the window step 0.

Into Harbourline Sainte-Catherine — shop floor — weight 2, in Montréal: 13 units in 1 transfer; the engine's shares 13, the size-gap step 0, the window step 0.

In all: 70 units by the engine's shares and 70 after the two steps, against 70 spare at the centre — every spare unit moves and the centre keeps its target and reserve of every size. 4 transfers, one per store, none over 24 lines.

The fast movers are read from the sell-through report by style over the 30 days from 3 October 2026 to 1 November 2026. The report keys its rows by the style's caption, so a style's colourways add into one row: the figures below are the style's across its sizes and colourways, and the days of supply is the stock at the close of the window times the window's days over the units sold. Within a style the sizes tie and fall to their names. The shoes move faster than the tops, so the shoes' lines ride first in every transfer.

The report's page by size is larger than a connected assistant can read on a store this size, so the ranking is by style.

4 transfers were rehearsed through the connector — 4 create-transfer calls, one per store, each out of the Distribution centre with the lines above in the fast movers' order — and shown back with their confirmation tokens; none was confirmed. The open transfers on file were 0 before and 0 after.

The follow-ups

“Yorkville is dressing its window on Thursday. Give it the full size run of the two hero styles and take the difference from Ottawa's share.”

The store dressing its window is Harbourline Yorkville — shop floor; the store in Ottawa is Harbourline Rideau — shop floor — its location record says Ottawa. The merchant named no hero styles, so the assistant took the two delivered styles as the heroes, Kids' style 432 (FW26) and Tops style 433 (FW26), and checked every delivered size. After the shares Harbourline Yorkville holds at least one of every size — 8 of the 8 — from its own stock and its share; the two sizes the centre holds back, the shoes' 11 and 11.5, were on its floor already. Its window run is complete, so the window step moved 0 units and nothing comes out of Harbourline Rideau's share; no size stays short. The two held sizes stay at the centre with their orders due: 4 more of the 11 and 2 of the 11.5, on 19 November 2026.

The exceptions

• Asked for the whole centre, the push desk does not answer in time on a hub this size, so the call was bounded to the 8 delivered sizes — 1 call, answered in full.
• The ABC classifier does not answer in time on a store this size, on the centre or on the whole company, so no class rides the ranking; the fast movers are ranked by the sell-through report instead.
• The sell-through report's page by size is larger than a connected assistant can read on a store this size, so the velocity is read by style — 22 report pages, the receipts report among them.
• The report keys its rows by the style's caption, so a style's colourways add into one row; the days of supply is the style's, not the colour's.
• The size-gap step moved 0 units: after the shares every store holds its display minimum of every shared size.
• The window step moved 0 units: Yorkville's run is complete on its own stock and share, and no size stays short.
• 4 transfers were rehearsed through the connector and shown back with their confirmation tokens; none was confirmed. The open transfers on file: 0 before, 0 after.

What stayed the merchant's call

The assistant created nothing. The four transfers above were rehearsed through the connector and shown back with their confirmation tokens; none was confirmed, and the stock at the centre and in the stores stands as it was. The store weights, each store's display minimum, the centre's target and reserve and the transfer lanes are the merchant's own rules. The size-gap step, the window step and the order of the lines by velocity are the assistant's arithmetic over the engine's shares, and the merchant can change any of them. The owner's own session, with these prompts put to the assistant, follows.

Where every figure comes from

Every figure on this page is read from the run file at the render. Each one is a call’s answer by its number, or a figure derived from the answers by the formula beside it. Nothing is typed.

The tool calls

• whats_next — 1 call
• run_read · me — 1 call
• org_layout — 1 call
• run_read · receipts — 1 call
• run_read · reportRun — 22 calls
• get_record · PurchaseOrder — 2 calls
• get_record · OrgVendor — 2 calls
• get_record · Variant — 8 calls
• run_read · inventoryItems — 8 calls
• run_read · replenishmentConfigs — 1 call
• run_read · transferLanes — 1 call
• get_record · PhysicalFacilityLocation — 4 calls
• run_read · allocationSuggestions — 1 call
• run_read · purchaseOrders — 1 call
• run_read · transfers — 2 calls
• run_write · createTransfer — 4 calls
• get_record · OptionGroup — 3 calls
• get_record · OptionValue — 10 calls