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