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Product definition and UX for an aerospace supply-chain decision support

Product definition, operator research, constraint modeling, and pilot for defense supply-chain decisions. 2024.

Product direction and MVP · aerospace and defense supply chain · 2024

A console that shows a disruption, and the programs and parts it touches, before a status dashboard forces the answer.

Decision intelligence for supply chain · defense · 2024

I worked with the founder and operators to define the decisions the product needed to support, using recent gas-turbine and rare-earth supply scenarios as the basis for the workflow.

A re-creation of the pilot's provenance view: supplier sites and ports on a map of the United States, one route traced, and a courses-of-action table ranking suppliers by lead time, delivery performance, inventory and relationship risk
The pilot · provenance mapping over the supplier network and the courses of action it ranks (a re-creation of the screen, redrawn for the page)
Decision
The first version stayed focused on decision support. Real-time tracking, automated execution, and supplier-risk prediction were deferred.
What I did
Founder working sessions, competitive landscape research, operator research, product definition, constraint modeling, prototyping, and pilot design.
Role
I defined the first product, mapped the workflow from alert to recommendation, and built the functional prototypes.
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Full write-up

Full write-up: architecture, workflow research, pilot design, and positioning.