State
Inventory and agreement
How different systems represent physical inventory, and what happens when those records disagree.
The book
Supply Chains Are Distributed Systems
How Engineering Thinking and AI Are Rebuilding the Way the World Moves Goods
By Sachidananda Singh
A book for engineering leaders working with physical operations, and operations leaders working with software. It examines inventory consistency, message passing, reconciliation and the role of AI in operational decisions.
What the book explores
Communication
Events and message passing
How information travels between organizations and software, and how failures propagate.
Reliability
Recovery and reconciliation
How engineering patterns can help operations detect discrepancies and recover from failures.
Applied AI
Decisions and their foundations
Why reliable inputs and operational controls matter when AI participates in supply chain decisions.
Edition identifiers
- Paperback ISBN
- 9798997176105
- Hardcover ISBN
- 9798997176112
- Kindle ASIN
- B0H9QRPPCZ
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Reader resources and corrections
Explore the messaging and reconciliation themes through two original companion guides.
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Related engineering articles are collected on the writing page.
Inventory event reconciliation lab
A runnable companion example comparing duplicate delivery, delayed events and snapshot recovery using Python, SQLite and synthetic data.