Operations owns the handoff and escalation design: Who owns that operational handoff?
The deploying function must translate vendor expertise into practical user limits, challenge rules, and escalation procedures.
The question
A retailer deploys a demand-forecasting model in the EU. Applicable EU AI Act obligations and internal controls are assumed to apply. The vendor maintains the model, operations deploys forecasts, and regional planners decide inventory. The vendor provides technical training, but planners are not taught when to challenge forecasts or escalate. Who owns that operational handoff?
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- Assign IT to own the handoff because it controls access, documentation, and user permissions for the forecasting platform.IT may administer access and records, but those functions do not make it accountable for inventory workflows or forecast-challenge decisions.
- Make regional planners accountable for challenging forecasts and escalating uncertainty during inventory decisions.Planners must apply the process, but assigning them sole ownership omits the deploying function’s responsibility to establish training, authority, and escalation.
- Have the vendor deliver additional model training to planners.The vendor can explain technical behavior, but vendor training alone does not establish deployment-specific challenge and escalation procedures.
- Operations owns the handoff and escalation design. ✓The deploying operations function must translate supplier information into planner training, challenge criteria, and escalation procedures, while planners apply them.
The trap
Separate builder expertise from the deployer’s responsibility for safe use in context. How to remember it
The deploying function must translate vendor expertise into practical user limits, challenge rules, and escalation procedures.
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