Supplier Compliance Data Model: The Entities a Scalable Platform Needs
Design a supplier compliance data model around suppliers, facilities, products, requirements, evidence, approvals, findings and external requests.
Guide contents
Suppliers are not enough
Many requirements apply to a facility, product, component, shipment or reporting period, so those relationships should be represented explicitly.
Requirements and evidence are separate entities
A requirement defines what must be proven. Evidence defines the source that supports it. This separation enables reuse.
Decisions need history
Approval, rejection, exception and remediation states should preserve actor, timestamp and context.
External requests are outputs of the graph
Buyer questionnaires, filings and data rooms should assemble information from the controlled records rather than becoming separate source systems.
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