Utilities

A utility is a piece of auxiliary logic that runs underneath the product rather than sitting in front of it. Where modules are the operational records you work with and pipelines are the ways they combine, a utility is a cross-cutting mechanism that several modules lean on but none of them owns: how a number is derived, how a setting changes behavior, how a shared rule is applied everywhere at once.

This section explains those mechanisms on their own terms, so the behavior you see in the modules has a single place that says how it actually works.

Utility	In one line
Costing Model	How cost is derived platform-wide, and how the model is configured per organization
Lots & Expirations	How batch identity is entered once, derived everywhere, and shown per lot