What the documents look like
Brand outlet discount operations aim to clear out-of-season inventory and do not maintain a new-arrival full-price image. This purpose shapes the three materials this task handles: discount approvals, slow-moving inventory lists, and gross-margin calculation sheets. A discount approval records the discount level and approval status for a batch of SKUs. A slow-moving list reports inventory age and sales performance by period. A gross-margin calculation sheet places discount, cost, and intended selling price in one table. The typical operating parties are brand outlet stores, channel clearance teams, and finance business partners. Update frequency is weekly and monthly. Price tags belong to the execution layer and reflect the outward label once a discount is applied.
For product data and selection Q&A, workflow routing takes these materials as retrieval and judgment inputs, lets the user supply selection conditions through a form input node or a user selection node, and passes those conditions to later nodes. Retrieval by itself is not approval, and fields collected by a form are not authorization. Approval status, signature status, and effective status are three distinct facts; when a material does not state one of them, that fact remains unknown.
Constraints at the workflow routing step
When a form input node is triggered, the conversation enters an interactive state, collects required information, and after submission passes that information to later nodes. A user selection node executes the corresponding branch after the user makes a choice. Both nodes record workflow state and continue downward once the user completes the interaction. The interactive state is node behavior; no separate global state-recording switch is documented.
The core constraint for this task is that selection Q&A depends on retrieval results and user input together, and retrieval is not authorization. Whether a discount approval has been approved, whether a price tag has been replaced, and whether a gross-margin calculation has been reviewed all require the corresponding material or manual verification. A form collects values; business verification, approval, database writes, and external synchronization need a separate business interface or downstream process.
Hypothetical paper exercise sample: the material text provided for checking consists of three sentences. Sentence one: "March 2024 slow-moving list item 12, SKU number A-204, inventory age 210 days, discount approval number D-0315, approval status pending review." Sentence two: "The gross-margin calculation sheet for the same item states a discount level of 45%, cost price 120 yuan, intended selling price 66 yuan." Sentence three: "No price tag replacement record appears in this handover material." The draft sentence to be judged is: "A-204 has received discount approval and can be cleared at a 45% discount."
Configuration and implementation checks
The table below is organized around the sample above and lists documented settings or implementation checks relevant to this feature and the primary task. The values are starting points for this hypothetical exercise, with the comparison object stated.
| Configuration item | Hypothetical exercise starting point | Reason and comparison method |
|---|---|---|
| Form input node required fields | Selection conditions, material period | Selection Q&A needs a clear object and scope; compare against the "March 2024" period in the sample |
| User selection node branches | Check materials, submit selection | Branches correspond to downstream actions; verify each branch connection against the input |
| Retrieval input sources | Discount approvals, slow-moving lists, gross-margin calculation sheets | Correspond to the three sample material types; observe whether output cites fields from them |
| Output receiving node | Selection conclusion node | Compare output fields against fields collected by the form |
| Authorization status labeling | Pending review, not stated | Compare against the sample approval status; do not treat pending review as approval |
| External operation division | Separate business interface | Price tag replacement and approval execution are not completed by this workflow |
Three common errors
- Treating selection conditions collected by a form as approval authorization. In the sample the approval status is "pending review," while the draft sentence says "has received discount approval." The input is the form field and the material text, the comparison object is the approval status field, and the observable result is that the two do not match.
- Treating a retrieval hit as evidence that a price tag has been replaced. The third sample sentence states that no price tag replacement record appears in the handover material. The input is the retrieval result, the comparison object is the price tag replacement record, and the observable result is that this record is missing.
- Treating the discount level on a gross-margin calculation sheet as an executable discount. The second sample sentence contains calculation data only. The input is the calculation sheet field, the comparison object is the status of approval number D-0315, and the observable result is that the approval status does not show approval.
How to verify the setup
- For the sample draft sentence "A-204 has received discount approval and can be cleared at a 45% discount," the input is slow-moving list item 12 and discount approval number D-0315, the comparison object is the approval status field "pending review," and the observable result is that the draft sentence does not match the material text, so it is judged unsupported.
- For the missing price tag replacement record in the third sample sentence, the input is the handover material list, the comparison object is the price tag replacement record, and the observable result is that the record does not appear, so it is judged pending verification.
- For the 45% discount level in the sample gross-margin calculation sheet, the input is the calculation sheet field, the comparison object is the approval number status, and the observable result is that the approval does not show approval, so the calculation data is judged not to constitute an execution basis. If retrieval returns an empty result, a clearly stated paper input [] can be used to check the downstream design; this does not claim that a fictional rule retrieval necessarily returns [].
This page addresses only brand outlet discount operations, product data and selection Q&A, and workflow routing. During operational handover, which materials, operations, and requests sit at which authorization status cannot be resolved by treating retrieval or a form as authorized execution.