Value Streams Inventory and Attributes

Vendors participate in delivering value streams — performing or materially supporting individual stages. A value stream’s Participating Vendors attribute records those vendors directly, and the Related Vendors relationship attribute connects the value stream to the Vendors Inventory and Attributes, which is authoritative for Vendor records.

This relationship surfaces where an end-to-end flow of value depends on an external party. It enables value-stream-level vendor analysis: which value streams would be disrupted if a vendor failed to perform, which flows depend on a vendor at a critical stage, and where vendor concentration creates risk to value delivery.