Autonomous operations need more than a map. They need a machine-readable account of resources, locations, capabilities, constraints, queues, inventory relationships and live state.
A Warehouse World Model is the operational representation that lets software reason about what exists, what is happening, what is allowed and what may happen next.
When connected to telemetry and simulation, the model can support planning, counterfactual tests and architecture evolution—not only real-time dispatch.
The useful test is whether a model improves decisions under change: congestion, unavailable equipment, priority shifts, new robot types or altered layout.
Treat data semantics and state quality as part of automation infrastructure. A digital twin without decision relevance is only visualization.