Supply chain flow: concepts

Supply chain flow: concepts

note

A free-form annotation of one entity, written in one or more languages.

• annotated: → annotable (owner, inverse notes)
• content: localized_markdown

actor_type

A type of actor, with the flow domains it belongs to.

Extends annotable.

• display_name: localized_string
• description: localized_markdown
• domains: physical | information | financial | service (many)
• default_scope: → scope

item_type

A type of item, with the one flow domain it belongs to.

Extends annotable.

• display_name: localized_string
• description: localized_markdown
• domain: physical | information | financial | service

actor

A place in the network where items are held, consumed, produced or queued.

Extends annotable.

• display_name: localized_string
• description: localized_markdown
• type: → actor_type (required, inverse actors)
• scope: → scope (inverse actors)
• location: → location (inverse actors)
• parent_actor: → actor (inverse child_actors)

flow

A connection moving one optional item from a source actor to a destination actor.

Extends annotable.

• display_name: localized_string
• description: localized_markdown
• source: → actor (required, inverse outgoing_flows)
• destination: → actor (required, inverse incoming_flows)
• item: → item (inverse carried_on)
• bidirectional: boolean

item

A family of things the network moves and holds.

Extends annotable.

• display_name: localized_string
• description: localized_markdown
• type: → item_type (required, inverse items)

item_at_actor

An item held at an actor.

Extends annotable.

• actor: → actor (owner, inverse held_items)
• item: → item (required, inverse held_at)

transformation_type

A type of transformation.

Extends annotable.

• display_name: localized_string
• description: localized_markdown

transformation

A transformation of consumed items into produced items at an actor.

Extends annotable.

• display_name: localized_string
• description: localized_markdown
• type: → transformation_type (required, inverse transformations)
• actor: → actor (owner, inverse transformations)

transformation_line

One item consumed or produced by a transformation.

Extends annotable.

• transformation: → transformation (owner, inverse lines)
• role: consumed | produced
• held_item: → item_at_actor (required, inverse transformation_lines)

conversion

A conversion of one item into another item at an actor.

Extends annotable.

• display_name: localized_string
• description: localized_markdown
• actor: → actor (owner, inverse conversions)
• from_item: → item (required)
• to_item: → item (required)

scope

A flat grouping of actors, a swim lane of the graph.

Extends annotable.

• display_name: localized_string
• description: localized_markdown

location

A geographic place or site where actors operate.

Extends annotable.

• display_name: localized_string
• description: localized_markdown
• latitude: latitude
• longitude: longitude
• address: string
• postal_code: string
• city: string
• country_code: country_code
• un_locode: un_locode
• timezone: string