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Because\u00a0colour is a defining product attribute in apparel, balancing inventories across colour variants is both an economic and a sustainability challenge. We propose two complementary Markov-decision-process (MDP) tools to address this problem: (1) the Stochastic\u00a0Risk\u2011Adjusted\u00a0Markov\u00a0Optimizer (SRAMO), a reinforcement\u2011learning procedure that samples prospective future states and rewards actions that minimize the expected deviation from a uniform colour distribution; and (2) Stochastic\u00a0Risk\u00a0Inventory\u00a0Analysis (SRIA), a diagnostic test that flags colours whose steady-state probabilities differ significantly from the uniform benchmark, signaling latent over- or under-stock risk. Using a dataset of products and their recommendation\u2011link transitions from five global e\u2011commerce platforms, we built two transition matrices and benchmarked SRAMO against classical Q\u2011learning and a deep Q\u2011network (DQN). 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