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Notes from building Labnize
Short pieces about how the product works and why it was built that way, from the people building it.
Croston, and why the forecast is not a black box
Chemical demand is intermittent, which is the case a moving average handles worst. Here is the model behind the days-of-supply figure and the alert it raises.
6 min read
What happens to stock when an analyze runs
Running a test is the one moment where the paperwork and the physical inventory have to agree. Here is the chain of writes behind a single execution.
5 min read
Why a batch code starts at the shelf
Supplier lot numbers are not unique, not consistent and not yours. Deriving the batch code from the storage location fixes all three problems at once.
4 min read