Resilience · The failure points · Element

The points

Each place where a single failure would stop supply.

The part

What it is

Suppliers, facilities, routes, systems and people all qualify, and the last two are frequently missing from supply chain risk work.

A single customs broker or a single certification is as much a failure point as a single factory.

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.