An assistant is only useful if you can trust the answer and check it. Here is what it reads, how your own policy shapes the analysis, and the safeguards that keep the decision with a person.
The assistant reads your ERP, accounts, CRM, production and inventory records, along with contracts and price lists where they matter. If a question cannot be answered from that data, it says so rather than filling the gap with an estimate.
The options are not compared in the abstract. Your cost basis, margin floor, discount bands, credit limits and approval thresholds are built in, so an option that breaks a rule is shown as breaking it, with the size of the gap.
The assistant cannot approve an order, change a price, release a payment or commit capacity. It presents the analysis and the trade-offs, a person makes the decision, and the reasoning is logged so the choice can be reviewed later with the same evidence.
Ask the way you would ask a colleague, with no report names or codes to remember.
Choices set side by side on one cost basis, with the trade-off written out.
Test a price, volume or lead-time change against the current order book before committing.
Open any figure and see the transactions, contracts or price lists it came from.
What was asked, what the data showed, and what was decided, kept for later review.
People get answers only from data they are already allowed to see in your systems.
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