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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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# Safety Stock
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## Definition
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Inventory held in excess of expected demand to buffer against supply and
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demand uncertainty. Safety stock represents capital deliberately kept
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unproductive — not expected to be consumed in normal operations — in order
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to preserve operational continuity when actual demand or supply deviates
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from forecast. The optimal safety stock level balances inventory holding
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cost against stockout cost.
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## Source
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Capital and Inventory in Supply Chain Management, §Safety Stock and Reserve
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Capacity
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## Supply Chain Domain
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Capital Management
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## VSM Assignment
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S3 — Safety stock is a management-level capital allocation decision. The
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question of how much safety stock to hold is a resource management choice
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that trades off capital efficiency against operational resilience, made at
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the S3 (management/control) level.
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## WoN Concept
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Accumulation of Stock — Smith describes the accumulation of stock as a
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prerequisite for productive activity: you cannot employ workers until you
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have stock to sustain them. Safety stock is a modern instantiation of this
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logic — productive continuity requires a buffer of stock to absorb
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variability, just as Smith's pre-capitalist household needed a reserve before
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it could specialise its labour. Both represent capital held in reserve against
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contingency rather than deployed in production.
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