Resilience · The tested response · Element

The alternatives

The pre-arranged alternative source, route or method.

The part

What it is

An alternative identified but not arranged is a name on a list. Qualification, pricing and capacity confirmation are what make it real.

Alternative capacity should be checked against what would actually be needed, since a supplier able to serve ten per cent of demand is not a contingency.

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.