NY Textile Lab Supply Chain Comms

Temporary setup for discussion until we figure out something better.

1. New York Textile Lab Supply Chain Communications
2. Cast of characters
9. I need some Grade 2 white alpaca, some Grade 3 white alpaca, some white merino wool, and some white romney wool. Questions: • What’s a reasonable quantity for “some”? • Who gets that message? Everybody in the network? One farmer? One spinner? • In Valueflow terms, does the Designer use a recipe to plan a set of processes for the whole supply chain? • Does each Process include a Request for a Process Agent to fulfill the input requirements? • Should the planning algorithm stop if it finds some inventory at some stage and request those resources and be done? • Or does the Designer send a set of Requests to each Agent for them to plan a Process to fulfill the Designer’s requirements at that stage in the supply chain? • Or does the Designer send a Request to the Spinner, who sends a Request to the Scourer, who sends a Request to the Farmer?