● PROTOTYPE · NOT THE BUILT PRODUCT built from Partner Networks analysis

GIK Ridgeline Supply · Inventory manager

Manage what you share

The PRD is blunt about the stake: businesses will not adopt if they fear exposing cost data or overselling their own stock. So the default is nothing, every control is per-network, and the preview step is not optional.

Highest-severity failure mode. A business in several networks must never see one network's pricing leak into another. One competitor glimpsing cost data would be unrecoverable for the feature.

Editing policy for Cascade Regional Parts Co-op · your other 2 networks are unaffected

1

Scope — what is visible

Nothing is shared until you choose otherwise.

NothingThe default. The network sees no catalog from you at all. Selected itemsHand-pick the lines you are willing to trade. A category or tagEverything filed under a heading, including future additions. One location or warehouseUseful when only surplus at a single site is spare. Entire catalogEverything you stock. Rarely the right answer.

2

Quantity — how much is visible

Bias toward buffers. Wrong quantities destroy trust faster than high prices.

Availability onlyIn stock, low, or out. No numbers leave your business. Above a safety bufferShare anything over a reserve you set — protects your own demand first. A fixed allocationCommit a set number to this network and no more. Live quantity on handFully transparent. Only sensible with close partners.

3

Pricing — what partners pay

Prices set here are visible to this network only.

Price on requestPartners raise a quote. Nothing numeric is exposed. Standard wholesale priceYour usual trade price. Network-specific price listA list that exists only for this network. Percentage off a base priceA discount or markup against a list you already maintain. Cost plus a fixed marginDerived from cost — the cost figure itself is never shown.

4

Terms — conditions of sale

Carried onto every order placed under this policy.

Minimum order

Order increments

Lead time

Fulfilment

Returnable

5

Reciprocity — optional

Discourages members who take without giving.

Only show my inventory to members who share theirs.

Publishing is locked until you have looked at your own listing the way a partner will.

What this policy exposes

Updates as you choose. This is the honest summary, not marketing.

CatalogNothing

QuantityAvailability only

PricePrice on request

ReciprocityOff

With scope set to Nothing, this network sees no catalog from you. Members cannot order, and you will not appear in partner search.

As Northgate Auto Parts would see it

Brake rotor 320mm · ventedIn stock
Price on request

Brake pad set · ceramicLow
Price on request

Wheel bearing kitIn stock
Price on request

Minimum order 4 units · increments of 2 · ships in 3 business days · returnable.

Rules that hold regardless

Publishing is opt-in and per-network. Three networks can see three different catalogs at three different prices.
A policy change applies to new orders immediately and never rewrites orders already placed.
Every read is authorised against a live membership and a live policy — never a cached one.

Illustrative placeholder data, in-memory state.