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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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WoN Mappings — Capital and Inventory
Generated from: artifacts/sources/capital-and-inventory.md
Just-in-Time Inventory → Circulating Capital
Supply Chain Entity
Just-in-Time Inventory
WoN Entity
Circulating Capital
Mapping Rationale
Smith defines circulating capital as the component of capital consumed each productive cycle that yields its return only by changing hands — contrasted with fixed capital (durable plant and equipment). He argues that the faster circulating capital turns over, the more productive output can be generated from a given capital stock. JIT inventory management is an explicit strategy to maximise the velocity of the circulating capital cycle by minimising the time capital spends frozen as inventory. The financial logic is identical: reduce dwell time, increase velocity, extract more productive output per unit of capital employed.
Conceptual Continuity
Strong — JIT is Smith's circulating capital theory operationalised as an inventory management practice. The mechanism (faster turnover of working capital) and the goal (higher productive output per unit of capital) are the same; only the technological form differs.
VSM Inheritance
Just-in-Time Inventory inherits S1/S3 via Circulating Capital (operational resource; managed for return velocity through S3 capital management policy).
Safety Stock → Accumulation of Stock
Supply Chain Entity
Safety Stock
WoN Entity
Accumulation of Stock
Mapping Rationale
Smith describes stock accumulation as a prerequisite for economic activity: before workers can be employed in specialised production, the employer must have accumulated sufficient stock to sustain them while production is in progress — before any output can be sold. Safety stock is a modern instantiation of this logic: productive continuity requires holding a buffer of stock to absorb demand and supply variability, just as Smith's producer needed reserves before specialising. Both forms of stock are held not for immediate productive use but as insurance against disruption to continuous operations. The trade-off Smith identifies — between accumulating stock and deploying it productively — is exactly the safety stock optimisation problem.
Conceptual Continuity
Moderate — The reserve function is shared, but Smith's accumulation of stock is primarily an enabling condition for production while safety stock is an operational buffer. The temporal purpose differs (enabling new activity vs. maintaining existing activity), though the economic logic (idle capital as insurance against continuity risk) is the same.
VSM Inheritance
Safety Stock inherits S3 via Accumulation of Stock (capital management decision about how much reserve to hold against operational risk).