What is a risk score?
A risk score is a single combined measure that brings together a product’s inventory depth and its live demand pressure into one ranking number. Where stock runway and demand trend each describe one side of the picture, the risk score fuses them so products can be ordered by how urgently they need attention.
What goes into a risk score?
Two halves: how little room a product has left — its stock runway and stock depth — and how hard demand is pushing against it — recent velocity, active carts and short-term demand trend. A product scores highly when both are true at once: little stock and strong demand.
Why combine them into one number?
Because merchandisers need a priority order, not two separate lists. Sorting by stock alone surfaces quiet tail products; sorting by demand alone surfaces well-stocked best-sellers. The risk score puts the products that are both low and moving at the top, which is where intervention has the most value.
How is a risk score used?
The highest-scoring products are the most likely to sell out before being restocked, and therefore the most urgent for merchandising attention — the working list for restock decisions. It complements stock runway (the time measure) and scarcity risk (the condition) by deciding the order in which to act.
See risk scores in the platform
The demand intelligence layer ranks products by stock depth against live demand, so the most urgent restocks surface first.