Inventory Agent

The Inventory Agent is an Operations-family agent in the FMCG Cloud Agent Taxonomy, and like every agent on the platform it does a job rather than draw a chart. It continuously monitors stock positions across the route to market — distributor and depot inventory, van-sales load, in-transit quantities and, where outlet data exists, shelf and back-room availability — and it triggers replenishment when a SKU is heading toward a stockout. Because it reads from the ConnectX data layer, it sees stock on hand, open orders, demand signal and lead time as one connected picture instead of separate spreadsheets, so its replenishment calls reflect what is actually about to sell, not last month's average.

In practice the agent maintains live coverage and days-of-supply for every SKU at every stocking location, flags slow-movers and overstock that tie up working capital, and watches expiry and batch windows so short-dated stock is pushed before it is written off. When demand or supply moves, it acts: it raises a replenishment proposal, adjusts a reorder point, or recommends a transfer between locations to cover a shortage somewhere else in the network. Those proposals are not dead-ends — on one data model they become work for other agents, so an inventory gap can flow into a suggested order, a route stop or a field task without anyone re-keying it.

The agent also closes its own loop. Every replenishment it triggers and every forecast it leans on is checked against what actually arrived and what actually sold, so its reorder points, safety stock and coverage targets tune themselves to each location's real rhythm — fast-turning urban outlets, seasonal lines, and slow rural stockists each get their own behavior rather than one global rule. As an Operations agent it carries the FMCG Verified certification, which means it has been tested to act on the shared data model safely and to keep its replenishment logic auditable.