feat(example): add supply-chain-vsm composition demo (S3.5)

Demonstrates infospace composition: the Wealth of Nations infospace is
used as a discipline, applying Smith's economic framework as a lens to
analyse modern supply chain management concepts.

New example: examples/supply-chain-vsm/
- infospace.yaml binding WoN as discipline (../infospace-with-history)
- 3 source documents: coordination mechanisms, capital & inventory,
  market structure (~400 words each, original content)
- supply-chain-entity-schema-v1.0.md with WoN Concept required section
- won-mapping-schema-v1.0.md with Conceptual Continuity rating
- artifacts/won-reference/core-entities.md — 12 curated WoN entities
  for injection as discipline context
- 8 hand-crafted entity files demonstrating LLM output format
- 3 mapping files with full rationale and VSM inheritance chains
- Viable: YES (5/5 thresholds)

Key mappings demonstrated:
  Demand Signal          → Effectual Demand        (Strong, S2)
  Vendor-Managed Inventory → Division of Labour    (Strong, S1/S2)
  Just-in-Time Inventory → Circulating Capital     (Strong, S1/S3)
  Bullwhip Effect        → Natural Price           (Moderate, S2)
  Platform Intermediary  → Merchant Capital        (Strong, S2/S4)
  Monopsony Power        → Combination of Masters  (Strong, S3*)

Platform fix: entity_parser.py now recognises ## Supply Chain Domain
as a domain alias for ## Economic Domain, enabling composed infospaces
to use their own domain section name.

Tutorial §13 rewritten with real commands, real output, and the full
mapping table from the demo.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# WoN Mappings — Coordination Mechanisms
Generated from: `artifacts/sources/coordination-mechanisms.md`
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# Bullwhip Effect → Natural Price as Central Price
## Supply Chain Entity
Bullwhip Effect
## WoN Entity
Natural Price as Central Price
## Mapping Rationale
Smith describes natural price as a centre of gravity around which market
price perpetually oscillates. The bullwhip effect describes an analogous
oscillation in supply chain order quantities around actual demand. In both
cases, a signal (market price; order quantity) should converge to a
reference value (natural price; true demand) through a corrective
mechanism, but systematic distortions prevent convergence. Smith's
mechanism is capital mobility; the bullwhip's is information transparency.
Where Smith shows that monopoly or regulation blocks convergence, the
bullwhip shows that information delay and batching produce the same failure
in a nominally competitive chain.
## Conceptual Continuity
Moderate — The oscillation-around-equilibrium structure is shared, but
the bullwhip's amplification mechanism (each tier adding safety buffers)
is an information processing problem that Smith did not specifically analyse.
His account of price oscillation focuses on capital reallocation; the
bullwhip operates through order distortion without necessarily involving
capital reallocation.
## VSM Inheritance
Bullwhip Effect inherits S2 via Natural Price as Central Price (coordination
layer failure — the anti-oscillation mechanism is absent or impaired).
---
# Vendor-Managed Inventory → Division of Labour
## Supply Chain Entity
Vendor-Managed Inventory
## WoN Entity
Division of Labour
## Mapping Rationale
Smith argues that dividing labour so each party performs only what they
are best equipped to do increases productivity and reduces waste. VMI
applies this principle at the inter-firm boundary: the inventory
replenishment function, previously split between buyer (tracking stock
levels) and supplier (responding to batch orders), is consolidated with
the supplier. The supplier has superior information about their own lead
times and production capacity, and direct visibility of consumption rather
than orders. The functional consolidation reduces the coordination friction
at the boundary and improves signal quality — precisely the efficiency
gains Smith predicts from specialisation.
## Conceptual Continuity
Strong — VMI is a direct application of division of labour at the
inter-firm level. The boundary conditions are different (firms rather
than workers; coordination through IT rather than supervision), but
the mechanism — assigning a function to the party best positioned to
perform it — is identical.
## VSM Inheritance
Vendor-Managed Inventory inherits S1/S2 via Division of Labour (operational
specialisation creating a more effective coordination arrangement).
---
# Demand Signal → Effectual Demand
## Supply Chain Entity
Demand Signal
## WoN Entity
Effectual Demand
## Mapping Rationale
Smith's effectual demand — the demand of those willing and able to pay —
is the signal that calls productive resources into action. When effectual
demand exceeds supply, market price rises and capital is attracted; when
it falls short, production contracts. The modern demand signal serves the
same coordination function: it tells upstream nodes how much to produce.
The structural difference is one of mechanism: Smith's effectual demand
works through price as a lagged, aggregated, emergent signal; the modern
demand signal is an explicit, real-time, granular data feed. The goal
(synchronising production with consumption) and the failure mode (distorted
signals cause misallocation) are shared.
## Conceptual Continuity
Strong — Effectual demand and the demand signal are the same coordination
function in different technological settings. The modern version is
Smith's concept made explicit and machine-readable.
## VSM Inheritance
Demand Signal inherits S2 via Effectual Demand (primary coordination
variable regulating upstream resource allocation).