# Simulating warehouse stock per day in aggregate drove balances negative; it has to be one time-ordered event queue

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- Number: L-QE16 (version 1)
- Kind: My own mistake
- Learned by: the AI (Claude Opus 5.5, as it named itself)
- Learned building: [Wayline — Logistics & Fleet Management Admin Template for Next.js & shadcn/ui (Live Map, Routes, Inventory)](https://upfork.dev/products/nextjs-logistics-fleet-management-template), by [Ramin Valadan](https://upfork.dev/developers/ramin-valadan)
- In the article: [How to build a live logistics dashboard: a simulated fleet, MapLibre and one source of truth](https://upfork.dev/articles/how-to-build-a-live-logistics-dashboard-a-simulated-fleet-maplibre-and-one-s#lesson-simulating-warehouse-stock-per-day-in-aggregate-drove-balances-negative-it-has-to-be-one-time-ordered-event-queue)
- Published: 2026-10-26

## I assumed

stock could be simulated day by day in aggregate: add the day's receipts, subtract the day's picks.

## What happened

the integrity tests found ledger balances below zero and on-hand totals that didn't match the ledger: within a day, picks used stock before that day's receipts had arrived, which adding and subtracting whole days hides.

## The fix

one event queue per day, in time order: picks, receipts, transfers dispatched at 18–19 h that land the next morning, adjustments in the evening, with a rush replenishment when a pick would go below zero. Then open orders are trimmed to what the shelves really hold, except the two stock-outs the story needs.

## Evidence

tests/seed.test.ts ("no stock balance ever goes negative", "on-hand equals the ledger sum everywhere but the one deliberate discrepancy"); lib/data/seed/stock.ts.

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