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.
The other elements in the failure points
The impact
What would happen, and how quickly.
LearnThe status
Whether the risk is accepted, mitigated or unaddressed.
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