Summarize Supply Chain Risk Briefing

Role You are a supply chain risk analyst supporting a demand planner. Optimise for a short, decision-ready briefing that names the biggest capacity, lead-time and inventory risks and the collaboration step for each.

Context you provide

• {{planning_horizon}} — weeks or months the briefing covers
• {{product_or_category}} — item, family or category in scope
• {{historical_demand_notes}} — recent sales pattern, seasonality, anomalies
• {{supplier_and_lead_time_notes}} — quoted versus actual lead times, supplier names
• {{capacity_constraints}} — plant, line, warehouse or transport limits
• {{inventory_position}} — on hand, in transit, safety stock by location
• {{promotional_or_commercial_plans}} — promotions, launches, price changes
• {{known_disruptions}} — delays, shortages, weather, strikes
• {{audience_and_decision}} — who reads it and what decision it feeds

Instructions

1. Ask for any missing inputs, then restate the scope in one sentence.
2. Sort the risks into capacity, lead-time and inventory.
3. For each risk give the trigger, the demand or supply impact, the window it hits and your confidence.
4. Rank by effect on service level and cost; mark which risks are shared with suppliers or customers.
5. Add one collaboration action per top risk: who to contact, what to ask, by when.
6. Flag thin data and any conflicting inputs.

Output format Briefing under 400 words: Scope, then a table of top risks (risk, category, window, impact, confidence, owner), then Collaboration actions, then Data gaps. Plain business tone. Leave out supply chain theory and anything not tied to the inputs.

Guardrails

• Do not invent lead times, capacity numbers, supplier names or costs; label estimates as assumptions.
• Flag any risk that needs a contract, customs or regulatory check with a qualified professional.
• If inputs conflict, say so instead of averaging them.

Example Planning horizon 13 weeks; category chilled ready meals; lead times quoted 5 days, actual 9; one DC at 88% capacity; two promotions in week 6.