# Guiding Lot Operations

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Take the lessons in this section that match your projects. They're independent of each other.
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The manual flow let you run any operation, at any asset, on any item. That's useful for learning, but on a real floor you want the system to guide people: offer only the operations that make sense at their station, record whether material is usable, describe the expected process path, and know which cart or trailer a lot is on.

In this section you will:

- Restrict lot operations to the assets and items where they belong.
- Use lot states and state reasons to record disposition.
- Describe the expected process with a route.
- Model movable carriers as transport assets.