Operational workspaces

Purpose-built work. Shared operational meaning.

A workspace is a governed operating environment configured around a recurring set of users, decisions and outcomes. Each workspace reuses the identities, relationships, rules, evidence and governance in PatternLab Cortex instead of creating another isolated model.

Live reference implementation

Supply Chain is the live workspace. Plan, Inventory and Sales are its views.

These views serve different recurring work inside one Supply Chain workspace—not three workspaces, products, deployments or copies of the truth.

Plan view

Make and adjust the plan

Balance orders, material, capacity, process constraints and actual execution.

  • Review exceptions and feasibility
  • Sequence and re-solve work
  • Compare scenarios and publish
Inventory view

Hold service on less cash

See inventory as a consequence of demand, supply variability and the plan.

  • Investigate shortages and excess
  • Review policy by SKU · location
  • Trace stock to demand and production
Sales view

Make reliable promises

Check an order against inventory, material and production capacity before committing.

  • Test requested dates
  • Compare full, partial and split options
  • Re-promise when operations changes
How work propagates

The relationship is cyclical.

1 · A promise changes

Sales accepts a priority order or revises a committed date. The shared demand state changes once.

2 · The plan responds

Plan re-solves capacity, sequence and material consequences—without a handoff spreadsheet.

3 · Inventory updates

Inventory recalculates shortages, replenishment and cash; new availability flows back to Sales.

The same loop can begin anywhere: a supplier delay in Inventory, a breakdown in Plan or a new order in Sales. Cortex follows relationships to show the blast radius before a person approves the response.

Distinct workflows, common objects

Context changes. Identity does not.

Shared objects
Order · SKU · location · batch · resource · material · supplier

The same stable identity appears in every view, with source lineage and effective dates intact.

Shared decisions
Promise · plan · inventory policy · purchase requirement

A decision is made once, versioned and reflected wherever it matters.

Shared governance
Roles · proposals · validation · approvals · audit

AI proposes. Rules and solvers validate. People approve high-impact decisions.

PatternLab-assisted configuration

A workspace is configured with you. It is not a self-serve builder.

PatternLab works with your team to turn a recurring operational responsibility into a governed workspace on Cortex.

Outcome
Define the decision and operating result

Agree who uses the workspace, what must be decided and how success is measured.

Meaning
Reuse and extend the semantic layer

Map the required source data and reuse shared identities, relationships, rules, evidence and time.

Controls
Configure views, validation and authority

PatternLab helps establish roles, review paths, approvals, audit and the boundary between proposals and decisions.

Extension path

More workspaces can reuse the same cortex.

The examples below illustrate extensibility only. They are not live PatternLab workspaces or current product claims.

Illustrative · not live

Quality Risk Registry

Connect materials, batches, specifications, deviations, supplier evidence and approvals around governed quality-risk review.

Illustrative · not live

Maintenance operations

Connect assets, work history, spares, production dependencies and evidence around maintenance prioritization.

Illustrative · not live

Other operational work

Similar workspaces could support recurring decisions wherever shared identity, relationships, rules, evidence and governance matter.