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Wholesale distributors: Inventory manager using Next.js

A inventory manager blueprint for wholesale distributors built with Next.js on Ample.

Domain schema:

Public information includes: catalog with case sizes, minimum order and delivery terms, trade account application. Kept out of scope until handling is reviewed: account pricing tiers, credit terms, delivery addresses. Account-specific pricing and credit terms are confidential.

Technical basis verified on Next.js: an optimistic version check and an event row written in the same transaction, a stale update rejected, and a history query over the application-owned events (history=2 conflict=rejected).

Representative Queries

Resource Requirements

Infrastructure Requirements

  1. Compute: Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.
  2. Postgres: Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.
  3. S3-compatible object storage: Buckets are S3-compatible with issued credentials; PutObject and GetObject are verified by canary.

Framework

Workflow Steps

  1. Model the wholesale distributors domain: Create the tables products, stock_movements, orders, order_lines, events. Sku catalog with case sizes lives in products; keep the sensitive classes out of this schema.
  2. Workflow step 1: Model SKUs and stock movements; derive stock from movements.
  3. Workflow step 2: Apply movements transactionally with an optimistic version check on the SKU.
  4. Workflow step 3: Record an event per movement for history.
  5. Workflow step 4: Deploy and verify history and rejected stale updates.
  6. Deploy: Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result. Re-running with no change is a no-op.
  7. Verify: Run pattern self-test(s) from the example and own acceptance checks for the wholesale distributors workflow.

Examples

Success Checks

  1. App responds on its public URL.
  2. Transactional-workflows self-test from the example.

Limitations

Cost Estimate

Note: Always-on monthly price; apps and databases auto-pause when idle.

Evidence Summary

Formats

Next Actions