{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.finished-good","code":"thing-q1408229","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1408229/","name":"finished good","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.OBJ"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A finished good is a tangible product that has completed its producer's required manufacturing or assembly processes but has not yet been sold, even if a purchaser will use it in further production.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to recognise a finished good, assess its completion and disposition, and determine whether it may be stored, allocated, shipped, or returned for further work.","scope":{"in":["Product identity and the producer-relative boundary between work in progress and finished goods","Evidence of completed production, including required finishing and packaging operations","Conformance, release, hold, and rework dispositions","Finished-stock quantities, lot or serial identity, and allocation eligibility","Preservation requirements and readiness for dispatch"],"out":["Raw materials and work in progress before the declared production boundary","Manufacturing process design and execution as activities","Detailed engineering models of the underlying product","Sales contracts, invoices, and revenue recognition","Warehouse buildings, transport vehicles, and distribution networks"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["All production operations required by the declared completion boundary are complete; remaining planned production normally indicates work in progress.","Finished status is relative to a producer and process: a finished component supplied by one producer may be another producer's input.","The good is a physical output or stock instance, distinguishable from its product 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release decisions, conditions, and rework instructions distinct from the fact of production completion.","questions":[{"text":"Who authorised the current hold, acceptance, rejection, or conditional release, and on what evidence?","id":"authorised-disposition-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What must occur before this stock may ship or return to production, and does that return reopen its completion status?","id":"authorised-disposition-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"finished-stock-accountability","name":"Finished-stock accountability","description":"Makes completed output identifiable, countable, and distinguishable from available-to-promise stock.","layers":[{"id":"stock-identity-and-quantity","name":"Stock identity and quantity","description":"Establishes the traceable population and quantity basis of the finished output.","findings":[{"id":"traceable-finished-quantity","name":"Traceable finished quantity","description":"Associate finished quantities with serials, lots, or a documented bulk identity and consistent units.","questions":[{"text":"Which serials, lots, or bulk stock identifiers carry this finished-good status?","id":"traceable-finished-quantity-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What quantity is present, in which unit, and how are packs or bulk measurements converted to that unit?","id":"traceable-finished-quantity-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"allocation-eligibility","name":"Allocation eligibility","description":"Distinguishes physical finished stock from stock eligible for a particular fulfilment need.","findings":[{"id":"eligible-stock","name":"Eligible stock","description":"Determine allocatable quantity using disposition, reservations, and relevant product or customer restrictions.","questions":[{"text":"How much finished stock remains eligible after holds, reservations, and other applicable restrictions?","id":"eligible-stock-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Which eligible lot or unit may satisfy this fulfilment request under the applicable selection rules?","id":"eligible-stock-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"preservation-after-completion","name":"Preservation after completion","description":"Tracks whether completed output retains the condition needed for its intended use and dispatch.","layers":[{"id":"storage-and-protective-packaging","name":"Storage and protective packaging","description":"Records preservation requirements and the condition of protective packaging where relevant.","findings":[{"id":"preserved-condition","name":"Preserved condition","description":"Assess whether the finished good has remained within its applicable storage and protection requirements.","questions":[{"text":"Which storage limits and packaging integrity requirements apply to this finished product?","id":"preserved-condition-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What observations or monitoring records establish compliance or identify damage and 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finished good this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of finished good this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-measurements","name":"Typical measurements","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of finished good this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-measurements-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which 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