SCENARIO 01 · BUSINESS SCENARIO
Why did the new product become more expensive?
A routine product-line review: Product B (new platform) costs 8% more per unit than Product A, while a competitor at the same position is 5% cheaper. This is a classic cost inquiry — not arithmetic, but a complete test of data, roles, and reasoning.
About 5 minutes · Deterministic teaching simulation · All three concepts on stage
SCENARIO CONSOLE · SCENARIO WORKBENCH
Walking through a real cost inquiry
All products, suppliers and figures below are deterministic teaching simulations. No real ERP / PLM / SRM system is called.
GOAL
Explain why Product B (new platform) costs 8% more per unit than Product A, and produce an actionable optimization recommendation.
How this scenario uses the three concepts
A scenario is not a fourth concept article — it is the first time all three concepts work together in one real inquiry.
Ontology
The object chain — product → BOM → BOM item → material → supplier — is the foundation that lets this cost inquiry be answered deterministically.
Digital Employee
The Cost Analyst role defines the analysis boundary: what can be read, what can be compared, what gets produced — and that the recommendation still requires human sign-off.
Agent
Goal, plan, BOM query, module comparison, root-cause trace and recommendation — the Agent loop turns analysis from "reading dashboards" into "executing reasoning".
Product B costs 8% more per unit than Product A. Comparing cost modules, the AI system finds the entire gap sits in "Materials", and traces it along BOM line items to a spec upgrade and a supplier change on the housing assembly.
What made it possible to pinpoint the root cause layer by layer?
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