Question

A logistics company is building a system to reroute shipments during weather disruptions. Each disruption is different: the number of affected shipments, the alternate carriers available, and the sequence of checks needed vary widely and cannot be predicted in advance. The engineering team wants the system to figure out its own sequence of steps at runtime, calling tools to check carrier availability, inventory, and costs as needed until it produces a viable rerouting plan. Which implementation approach best fits these requirements?

Accepted Answer

An agent that is given the relevant tools and, guided by the model, decides which tools to call and in what order, looping until it reaches a viable plan

Answer

A fixed prompt-chaining workflow with a predefined sequence: check carriers, then check inventory, then compute costs, then output a plan

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A routing workflow that classifies each disruption into one of three fixed categories and sends it to the matching specialized prompt

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A parallelization workflow that runs the carrier, inventory, and cost checks simultaneously and merges the results into a plan