Creating insight watchlist - AWS Supply Chain

Creating insight watchlist

You can create an insight watchlist to track and notify you on supply chain risks and deviations.

  1. In the left navigation pane on the AWS Supply Chain dashboard, choose Insights.

    The Insights page appears.

  2. If you are a first-time user, select an insight type to create an insight watchlist. See Creating an inventory risk watchlist and Creating a lead time deviation watchlist.

    To view existing watchlists, see Viewing inventory insights.

Creating an inventory risk watchlist

You can create an inventory risk insight watchlist to view projected stock out and excess stock risks generated by Insights from the tracking parameters you selected.

Inventory risk watchlist
  1. In the left navigation pane on the AWS Supply Chain dashboard, choose Insights.

    The Insights page appears.

  2. Choose New Insight Watchlist.

    The Create an Insight Watchlist page appears.

  3. Under Select an insight type, choose Inventory Risk.

  4. Under Name the watchlist, enter a name to track your insight watchlist.

  5. Under Select location(s), select the locations from the drop-down that you want to add to your watchlist.

  6. Under Select product(s), select the products from the dropdown that you want to add to your watchlist.

  7. Under Tracking Parameters, choose what you want to track. The options are Stock Out Risk, Excess Stock Risk, or Both.

  8. Under Time Horizon, enter the time frame to generate inventory risk notifications.

  9. Under Watchers, you can add other users who you think might benefit from this insight. The users within this insight can track and collaborate to resolve risks.

    All the settings you chose are displayed on the right.

  10. Choose Save to save and create an inventory risk watchlist.

Creating a lead time deviation watchlist

You can view and receive notifications for lead time deviations that AWS Supply Chain discovers. You can select any insight, and AWS Supply Chain will recommend how to address it.

Lead time deviation watchlist
  1. In the left navigation pane on the AWS Supply Chain dashboard, choose Insights.

    The Insights page appears.

  2. Choose New Insight Watchlist.

    The Create an Insight Watchlist page appears.

  3. Under Select an insight type, choose Lead Time Deviation.

  4. Under Name the watchlist, enter a name to track your insight watchlist.

  5. Under Select location(s), select the locations from the drop-down to add to your watchlist.

  6. Under Select product(s), select the products from the drop-down to add to your watchlist.

  7. Under Tracking Parameters, Standard deviation, select the lead time deviation percentage from the drop-down. When the percentage is met, AWS Supply Chain will generate an insight and notify you about the lead time deviation.

  8. Under Tracking Parameters, Historical time period to track miss frequency, select the historical time period of your ingested data from the drop-down to analyze lead time deviations.

  9. Under Watchers, you can add other users to collaborate and share the risks and notifications.

    All the settings you chose are displayed on the right.

  10. Choose Save to save and create an inventory risk watchlist.

Note

AWS Supply Chain only supports 1000 insights per watchlist and 100 watchlists per instance. To increase the limit, contact AWS Support.