# Prioritization and Severity
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Severity factors enable prioritization based on financial impact, helping you focus on insights that affect your highest-value operations.

## Accessing Severity Configuration
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From the Insights configuration page, navigate to the **Prioritization** tab.

## What Severity Factors Do
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Severity factors translate insights into business impact by calculating:
+ **Revenue impact**: Lost or at-risk revenue from supply chain disruptions (e.g., stockouts, delayed shipments, unfulfilled demand)
+ **Cost impact**: Additional costs incurred from supply chain inefficiencies (e.g., excess inventory carrying costs, expedited shipping, obsolescence)

## Working with Your Onboarding Teammate
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Use your onboarding teammate to configure severity factors conversationally. Ask questions like:
+ "How should we calculate revenue impact for different product categories?"
+ "What cost factors should we include for excess inventory situations?"
+ "Can we weight revenue impact differently for A-class versus C-class products?"

Share your product financial data, cost assumptions, or historical impact analysis. The teammate analyzes your inputs and recommends severity factor configurations that align with your business priorities.

## Using Financial Impact in Prioritization
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Once configured, severity factors enhance insight filtering and sorting on your Insights pages. The system displays calculated financial impact for each insight based on the type:
+ Stockout insight show revenue impact (estimated lost sales)
+ Excess inventory insight show cost impact (carrying costs and obsolescence risk)
+ Supply disruption insight show revenue impact (delayed fulfillment)
+ Overstock insight show cost impact (additional warehousing and capital costs)

You can filter and sort by financial impact to create a remediation roadmap that maximizes ROI, focusing first on insights with the highest financial implications.

**Example**: A stockout insight might show $50,000 in daily revenue impact based on lost sales. An excess inventory insight might show $2,000 in daily cost impact from carrying costs plus potential markdown exposure.