Designed around failure
A late or malformed source should be isolated, replayed, and reconciled—not allowed to take reporting with it.
RFP §4.5.1 · Attachment A P-3
Interactive RFP response
A living answer to HFG's EDMS opportunity—built to explore, question, and test.
HFG Enterprise Data Management System
Built to stay useful
when the data gets hard.
HFG does not need another rigid product to work around. It needs accessible operational data shaped around 12 POS platforms, hundreds of sources, and 400+ locations—starting with company-operated grocery and expanding on a foundation the whole enterprise can use.
12POS systems
400+locations
9 yrsretention need
HFG's book
of record Owned by HFG
of record Owned by HFG
35 pts
of HFG's 100 evaluation pointsTechnical fit: 20 · Data governance: 15
38
Capability rows in Attachment A
#1
Data accessibility for operational decisions
Our read of the assignment
The system cannot become the next system HFG has to escape.
Open by contract
Cleansed data, lineage, exports, and exit paths are part of the architecture from day one.
RFP §8 · §4.5.3Foundation and value together
Unify the data while delivering inventory and self-service reporting early—not after a years-long consolidation.
Vendor Q&A §3 Q5, Q8 · HFG guiding principlesInteractive proof 01 · Resilience
Break a source.
Keep the business moving.
Inject a representative failure into the proposed pipeline. This is an architecture scenario—not a production benchmark or contractual SLA.
Banner 07 feed
15-minute sales detail
StreamingDurable intake
Source checkpoint + queue
CurrentQuality gate
Contracts + quarantine
PassingCertified book
Last known-good state
Available
Scenario outcome
No active incident
Start the simulation to see how one bad feed is contained without interrupting certified views.
- Waiting for a scenario.
Proposed approach
Actual availability, RTO, RPO, escalation times, and test cadence must be validated and committed in the written response.
Interactive proof 02 · Scale
Scale the pipeline,
not the fragility.
Change the workload shape to see which design boundaries have to scale independently. Values represent an HFG planning scenario, not measured throughput.
Planning lens
Representative HFG planning scenario with independent ingestion, processing, and serving tiers.
POSEDISFTPAPIDBManual
01 · Source edgeAdapters + contracts
Each source versioned, observable, and independently recoverable.
240 adapters02 · Durable coreCanonical events + history
Raw evidence preserved; transformations repeatable and traceable.
9-year policy03 · Serving planeWorkload-specific views
Operational screens do not compete with exports, AI, or heavy reporting.
400 locations
StoresAccountingMerchandisingOpen SQLAPI
Source-level failure domains
One partner's outage does not become everyone's outage.
Idempotent processing
Late and corrected data can be safely recomputed.
Workload isolation
Dashboards, exports, and AI scale on different paths.
Operational evidence
Health, lineage, recovery drills, and freshness become visible controls.
Interactive proof 03 · Working concept
Not a slide about what we could make.
A place to try it.
This HFG-specific wireframe turns requirements and process maps into a shared object for discovery. Click through roles, workflows, data quality, reporting, and governance.
Prototype evidence
Explore the HFG EDMS concept
Use representative seed data to experience the proposed interaction model. This is an illustrative wireframe—not production functionality or a performance demonstration.
Three useful paths to try
- 01Change rolesWatch navigation and data scope respond.
- 02Open Data Sources & QualityInspect quality rules and recovery queues.
- 03Ask EDMS AISee an illustrative workflow from insight to action.
Traceability · Attachment A
Every requirement has a place.
Not every claim is ours to make—yet.
This explorer routes HFG's 38 capability rows to visible prototype evidence, a proposed design response, or a response-owner commitment. HFG's Q&A confirms that Available Today will be weighted most favorably.
38Total capabilities
30Required
8Nice to have
Prototype Approach Confirm
No capabilities match that search.
A delivery model built for discovery
Foundation first.
Value at the same time.
HFG expects phased delivery—not a big-bang go-live—and wants inventory and self-service reporting to arrive alongside data consolidation. The sequence stays adaptable as discovery establishes baselines and technical facts.
Establish the measures
Set inventory, reporting, manual-effort, margin, quality, and adoption baselines with HFG.
Unify grocery operations
Connect representative POS flows while releasing perpetual inventory and self-service reporting.
Operationalize the core
Layer EDI invoices, store operations, ordering, and promotion planning onto the trusted record.
Grow the platform
Extend formats and sources, then add MDM, AI/NLQ, vendor collaboration, and optimization.
From Attachment B
A good build starts with the unresolved questions.
- 01Which system owns average cost for nonfuel and fuel?
- 02How should credits affect perpetual count and the general ledger?
- 03How are parent-to-child transformations captured for perishables?
- 04Which data and reporting must remain private from the delivery partner?
The proposal in one sentence