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Thinking from
the floor.

Field notes, position papers, and operating briefs from the team. Written for operators, supply chain leaders, and anyone responsible for the operating discipline of distribution.

Featured · Position paper · 09 min read · May 2026

Why inventory truth is a discipline, not a feature.

If the system is not the source of truth, no module that sits on top of it will save the operation. A reading of where SCM stacks fail and what to put in their place.

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Field note · 07 min read · April 2026

Item master as the foundation of distribution operations.

Every operational deficiency we have diagnosed in distribution returns, eventually, to a master record problem. A walk-through of why the item master must come first.

Operating brief · 06 min read · March 2026

The case against the report-first SCM stack.

Reports describe. Systems decide. When the description and the decision live in different places, the operation pays the difference.

Essay · 11 min read · February 2026

What a warehouse teaches a software company.

Notes from twelve weeks spent on the floor of a mid-market distributor — and the product choices that came out of it.

Field note · 05 min read · January 2026

Land-and-expand, the operating version.

A defence of starting narrow and expanding deliberately. Why we refuse big-bang implementations and what we deploy instead.