Resilience · The dependency map · Element

The geography

Where the supply is physically concentrated.

The part

What it is

Geographic concentration is a distinct risk from supplier concentration, since a region can be affected by weather, regulation or infrastructure regardless of how many suppliers are in it.

It is also the concentration most likely to be invisible, because supplier lists record company names rather than locations.

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.