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 10 minutes · 3 chapters · 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.

Scenario ConsoleCHAPTER 01 / 03Data preparation · Ontology model · Relationships · Data quality

CHAPTER 01 · DATA PREPARATION

Business objects

Properties

Relations

Actions

Database tables

Agent Skills

Bill of materials

BOM

The bill of materials of a product.

Property	Type	Required	Source	Description
bom_id	String	Required	BOM system	Unique BOM ID
product_version_id	String	Required	PLM	Product version
bom_version	String	Required	BOM system	BOM version
effective_date	Date	Required	BOM system	Effective date
cost_basis	String	Required	Cost system	Cost basis
currency	String	Required	Cost system	Currency
total_cost	Decimal	No	Computed	Total cost
status	String	Required	BOM system	Status

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".

Check your understanding 60 sec

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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Concept 01

Ontology

Concept 02

Digital Employee

Concept 03

Agent