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No. 07

Field notes from
the operating floor.

Case studies, technical write-ups and short essays on the quiet work of running a supply chain. Written by the team — for operators, planners and engineers thinking about the same problems we are.

— 01 / Featured

The Bulletin · latest issues.

Case study

How a 87-store dermo-cosmetic chain cut stockouts in half.

The work, the numbers, the surprises. Eight weeks from kickoff to value, told without the marketing gloss.

Read — 12 min
Field note

Why fairness rules belong in the schema, not the spreadsheet.

Allocation under scarcity is a political act. We argue for moving the politics into code, where it can be reviewed.

Read — 8 min
Technical

Building a 21 CFR Part 11 audit log that engineers don't hate.

Append-only by default. Soft-deletes everywhere. Why we picked these primitives — and how Prisma stayed out of our way.

Read — 14 min
— 02 / Catalogue

The library, tagged.

— Case study

Pharmacy network · 240 doors · DE

Reducing audit findings from 14 to 1 in two regulatory cycles — what changed, what stayed.

— Case study

Luxury fragrance distributor · EU

A launch day, choreographed. How allocation fairness met clienteling.

— Case study

Beauty CDMO · 14 tenants · DE

Migrating from a legacy ERP without missing a single batch release.

— Field note

The 15-second morning briefing

Why we obsess over the first screen a planner sees — and what we throw away to keep it sharp.

— Field note

Forecasting promotions without lying

Prophet plus a promotion regressor, with the honest disclaimers planners deserve.

— Field note

The case against the "AI dashboard"

If your AI feature is a tile, you've built a screen. We argue for AI as workflow, not widget.

— Technical

Multi-tenancy without sadness

tenant_id everywhere, enforced in CI. The grim joy of catching the violation at PR time.

— Technical

NL → SQL → action, safely

How we route LLM intents to read-only queries first, mutating actions only with explicit approval.

— Technical

From CSV import to first forecast in four hours

The onboarding rails that let a small chain go live in an afternoon — and why we still review every step.

— Guide

Replenishment glossary for non-planners

Coverage days, safety stock, MOQ, ABC, lead time — defined the way a CFO would want them defined.

— Guide

Choosing between Retail, Distribution & Procurement

Three questions, one decision tree. Most operations land in fewer than ten minutes.

— Talk

Beauty Tech Week · Paris 2026

Slides and recording from our session on quiet AI and conversational planning.

We don’t write to be read. We write to think clearly.
— Internal writing guideline, IRISYS
— 03 / The Bulletin

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