Value Streams Inventory and Attributes - Vendor and Supplier Attributes for the Value Streams Inventory

Value Streams Inventory and Attributes

Chapter 22. Vendor and Supplier Attributes for the Value Streams Inventory

Vendor and Supplier attributes capture external parties that participate in delivering the Value Stream.

Attribute Name	Maturity	Description and Notes
Participating Vendors [Multi-Value]	Walk	Description — The vendors or service providers that perform or materially support one or more stages of the Value Stream. Benefit(s) — Surfaces the enterprise’s vendor dependency at the value stream level — revealing which end-to-end flows depend on external parties and where. Source — Manual Examples — Credit Bureau Provider; Payment Processor; Logistics Carrier Notes — Separate multiple vendors with semicolons. Use Not Applicable when no vendors participate. References vendors from the Vendors Inventory.