{"id":"proc-price-increase-pushback-email","audience":"procurement","category":"operations-work","track":"operations","technique":"constraints","level":"intermediate","title":"Push back on a supplier price increase with the cost impact shown","free":false,"task":"Your resin supplier announced a price increase. Write a prompt for an email to the rep, Tomas Reyes, that starts with a subject line, shows the annual cost impact as math, asks for the supporting cost data and a call this week, and neither accepts the increase nor claims a competing quote. Plain text, under 120 words.","materialLabel":"Your material (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"SUPPLIER NOTICE - Granite Polymers, dated Nov 3\n\"Effective Jan 1, the price of HDPE resin pellets increases 9% due to feedstock costs.\"\n\nOUR DATA\nCurrent price: $2.40 per kg\nAnnual volume: 50,000 kg\nContract: price fixed through Dec 31 under the supply agreement; no clause about mid-term increases beyond that date.\nContact: Tomas Reyes, account manager.\n\nINTERNAL\n- A coworker heard that Allied Resins might be cheaper, but we have no quote from them.\n- The plant manager wants the exact annual dollar impact before the call.\n- Ops needs 6 weeks' notice for any supplier switch, so Jan 1 is too soon to move anyway.","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":120}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Asks for a subject","patterns":["subject"]},{"label":"Shows annual impact math","patterns":["10,800","50,000","show the (math|impact)","annual"]},{"label":"Asks for data and a call","patterns":["cost data","supporting","call"]},{"label":"Bans competitor claims","patterns":["do not mention","other suppliers","competing"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Hinting at another supplier","why":"The AI adds 'we are evaluating alternatives'.","fix":"Say: \"Do not mention other suppliers or quotes.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Vague cost impact","why":"The AI says 'a significant increase' with no figure.","fix":"Say: \"Show the annual impact as math.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"No subject line","why":"The AI opens with Dear Tomas.","fix":"Say: \"First line: Subject:\".","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Getting markdown back","why":"AI adds bold, headings and bullets by default, which show up as stray symbols where this is pasted.","fix":"Say \"plain text, no bold, no headings, no asterisks\".","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting and usually runs long, so a vague \"keep it short\" lands over the limit.","fix":"Cap each part instead of the total, for example \"each line under 15 words\".","checks":["maxWords"]}],"hint":"Start with a subject, show the annual math, state the two asks and say what not to say.","mission":"Push back on Tomas Reyes's resin price increase.","musts":["Annual impact as math","Ask for cost data, call","Don't accept or bluff"],"rubricLabels":["The email starts with a Subject: line and is addressed to Tomas","It shows the impact as math: 9% of $2.40 is $0.216 per kg (about $2.62), and 50,000 x 0.216 = $10,800 per year","It asks for the supporting cost data and a call this week, and does not accept the increase or mention Allied Resins or any competing quote"]}