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.
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.