Operating from the islands

Ten stock statuses are declared. One counts as sellable and five count as a hold. The other four are neither — so stock put into one of them cannot be sold and is reported as not being on hold, which is the worst of both descriptions.

A freight bill is a fixed amount of money, so the goods it brought have to carry that amount between them and no more. Ours carried it once per delivery — an order arriving in two parts booked twice the freight that was paid. We found it by writing the test that did not exist, and the error hides best exactly where freight matters most.

We published that this product stored no daily metrics and computed every dashboard figure from scratch. It was false, and it was on this page. Dashboard history is precomputed nightly, finished days are read from storage, today is always live, and a missing day repairs itself on read. The reason the check went wrong is worth more than the original article.

This module will refuse to move a project from planning straight to completed. It will not refuse to spend twice its budget. One of those is enforced by a state machine and the other is a percentage on a screen.

An asset here can be owned, leased or borrowed, enforced across five separate write paths. Extending the same ownership status to stock — consignment, customer-owned, held on loan — is an addition we can make to your workspace.

Stock leaves this system by two paths, and the till keeps its own record. Bringing both onto one vocabulary, so a counter-only shop's consumption reports read correctly, is a unification we can apply to your workspace.

Overtime here is requested, approved and locked into a period like any other hour, with a full approval trail. A rate factor — so an approved overtime hour costs 1.5x or 2x — is a configuration layer we can add for you.

An invoice is not created and sent in one act. It is drafted, approved by a named person at a recorded time, confirmed, then sent — and a customer over their credit limit stops it dead at approval. Having a lifecycle at all is the unusual part.

A field called "notified at" was being filled in on tickets where nobody had been notified. A missing alert is a gap you can find; a false record of one closes the investigation and moves the blame to a colleague.

Every reorder calculation assumes an order placed today arrives a fixed number of days from today. On an island resupplied by scheduled sailings, the wait depends on when you asked relative to the cut-off — so the same order, placed two days apart, can land weeks apart.

Real-time fiscalisation moves the tax authority from something you report to afterwards into something standing between you and your own invoice. That is an operations change before it is a tax change.

A market with capable local firms, a genuine fiscalisation obligation and a records problem nobody sells to. Mostly about buying the right three things from the right three places.

Groups configure their systems for the trading subsidiaries, because that is where the stock and the customers are. Then they discover annually that the entity nobody configured is the one with the evidence obligation.

Six things get assessed, and every one of them is evidenced by records a business already generates. The failure is almost never that the substance is missing — it is that nobody can produce it without reconstructing the year.