The decision in one minute

A retail demand forecast should reach inventory planning only after its data snapshot, time boundary, model artifact, decision metric, and rollback target are reproducible. Treat promotion as a controlled change to an operational decision, not as “the latest experiment passed a notebook metric.” A model can be deployable yet unsuitable for replenishment because training features were backfilled after the forecast origin, evaluation hid stockouts, or nobody agreed on an acceptable business loss.

The indexed MLOps architecture page is useful for a lifecycle overview.…