Logistics · The network · Element
The nodes
Each location where goods are held or handled.
The part
What it is
Nodes include facilities you do not own — third-party warehouses, consolidation points, partner locations — which are frequently missing from the picture.
Each node has a fixed cost that exists whether or not it is used efficiently, which is what makes the count a strategic decision.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.