Adaptive control of an item inventory plan

One or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computing systems, configure the one or more computing systems to perform operations comprising:

• detecting a discrepancy between a consumption of a capacity and the capacity, the consumption determined based at least in part on a simulated demand for an item, the capacity associated with inventorying items of a same category;
• determining an opportunity cost for using the capacity to store the item, the opportunity cost determined based at least in part on lost sales of other items of the items of the same category;
• updating the opportunity cost associated with the capacity to an updated opportunity cost based at least in part on determining that the discrepancy fails a convergence criterion, the opportunity cost indicative of a value associated with using the capacity for inventorying the items;
• simulating the consumption based at least in part on a set of parameters comprising the updated opportunity cost and a merchant capacity to provide the item;
• detecting that a resulting discrepancy between the simulated consumption and the capacity meets the convergence criterion;
• and
• generating a decision to acquire units of the item based at least in part on the updated opportunity cost.

A system comprising:

• a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions;
• and
• a processor configured to access the memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to collectively at least:
• determine an opportunity cost for using a capacity to store an item;
• detect a discrepancy between a consumption of the capacity and the capacity, the consumption determined based at least in part on a simulated demand for the item to be inventoried and the opportunity cost, the opportunity cost indicative of a value associated with using the capacity to inventory a category of items comprising the item and determined based at least in part on lost sales of other items of the category of items;
• update the opportunity cost to an updated opportunity cost based at least in part on the discrepancy;
• simulate the consumption based at least in part on the updated opportunity cost;
• determine that the discrepancy satisfies a convergence criterion based at least in part on an update to the consumption based at least in part on simulating the consumption;
• and
• in response to the determination that the discrepancy satisfies the convergence criterion, generate a decision to inventory units of the item based at least in part on the updated opportunity cost.