Short write‑ups of problems we hit running a real commerce operation and what we changed in the code because of them. No product announcements; just the reasoning.
A dashboard that makes ordering easy invites dumping. What stops the purchaser ticking everything red and calling it someone else's problem - a hard cap built from measured deliveries, a shared warehouse split fairly, and a rule about never letting anyone edit the number that judges them.
Data can only predict the past. Our stock forecaster leans into that - measure the past honestly (including the days the shelf was empty), then say how wrong you might be.
Four sales hubs in Europe buy most of their stock from suppliers in Asia through agents — commission‑based intermediaries who consolidate everyone's purchase orders, pay deposits, and ship one container. The procurement module that models that is built and being migrated, not yet live. Part I is the design: suppliers as group master data, the agent's "mini kingdom", a purchase order that splits per supplier, a stock delivery that is a delivery note in reverse, a cross‑organisation shopping list with MOQ bars, deposits as "money in the air", and a command‑and‑control board built for the fights.