vertical-logistics

Logistics and supply chain architecture requires understanding domain vocabulary like TMS vs WMS, multi-carrier rate shopping, dimensional weight, BOL/ASN, and lot/batch tracking to build robust systems. These terms define the core entities and rules for shipment, warehouse, and route products.

To model entities for a shipment tracking product, you must define specifications for shipments, carriers, and normalized tracking statuses. This includes accounting for non-obvious rules like branded tracking and multi-carrier rate shopping to avoid naive specifications.

Warehouse-lite and route optimization systems follow non-obvious incumbent rules such as reorder point calculations, lot/batch tracking, and route optimization constraints. Recognizing these rules prevents underestimating complexity when specifying inventory and routing entities.

Yes, specifying supply chain product requirements requires prior understanding of logistics concepts and practices. This domain knowledge is necessary to properly define vocabulary, entity modeling, and non-obvious rules for products like po-mgmt and shipment tracking.

The best way to plan a purchase order management product is to define its PO lifecycle management rules and entity specifications upfront. This approach avoids naive specifications by addressing the specific domain vocabulary and non-obvious rules incumbent systems follow.

Logistics product planning often underestimates system complexity because architects miss non-obvious rules like normalized tracking statuses, dimensional weight, and PO lifecycle management. Without proper domain knowledge, specifications for warehouses, inventory, and routes lack robustness.