The Supplier Compliance Data Model: Suppliers, Evidence and Requirements
Understand the core data model behind supplier compliance infrastructure and how suppliers, facilities, products, requirements and evidence should connect.
Suppliers are not the only entity
Many requirements apply to a facility, product, material, shipment or reporting period rather than the supplier organization as a whole.
Requirements and evidence are different objects
Requirements describe what must be demonstrated. Evidence describes the source used to support the response. One evidence item can support many requirements.
Approvals create trust
Review status, reviewer, date and version should be part of the record so teams know which evidence is safe to reuse.
A connected model enables automation
Once entities are linked, the system can prefill requests, flag missing evidence, trigger renewals and create consistent outputs.
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