Six departments. One journey.

An organization has an expert at every step and rarely an expert in the journey. Dinner crosses the same six departments, on a smaller road. Stewbert is the companion that walks the whole of it.

After Horizontal intelligence on the Caterbum blog.

Six departments drawn as archways in a row - Intake, Inventory, Facilities, Procurement,
Shipping and Receiving, Production - each showing its kitchen counterpart, with one lit
path running through all six.

Everyone carries a lantern that lights a portion of the road. This one lights all of it.

Department	In an organization	In the kitchen
Intake	A new employee or customer: who they are, what they need, what they cannot have.	Who is eating, what is off the table, how long a weeknight dinner may take.
Inventory	What is on the shelf and how much of it.	The cabinets, the fridge and the freezer, from a photo the cook corrects.
Facilities	The plant, the equipment, the floor space.	Pots, pans, stove, oven, countertop.
Procurement	Cull the requests to the allowable list; size and issue the order.	The house rules score the menu; the list is scaled, pantry subtracted, sized to packages, sent to the store.
Shipping and receiving	The order goes out; the delivery is checked against it.	The cart is filled; the bags on the counter are photographed and checked line by line.
Production	Make the thing.	Cook along, one step at a time, with timers.

Vertical intelligence knows the function. Horizontal intelligence knows the journey.