Procurement
Which of my parts run through that node?
Every finished product traced back to the failed supplier, facility or route — with the share of volume that depends on it.
TriggerA supplier goes dark, a plant halts, a recall hits.
A supplier or chokepoint just failed
How far does this disruption travel before it reaches your line?
A tier-three supplier goes dark. A strait closes. A plant floods. The question is not whether it matters — it is which of your products it reaches, and when. Map Collective traces the cascade from the shock to your line, ranked by production days and revenue at risk.
The shock
A node fails — supplier, port or route.
The blind spot
You can name tier one. You cannot see tier three.
The clock
Days before it reaches production.
01The trigger
The failure is not the surprise. Not knowing it was load-bearing is.
A supplier we had never heard of, four tiers down, turned out to sit under 40% of our finished line — and we found out when the line stopped.
Most teams can name their direct suppliers. Almost none can see which deep-tier nodes are single points of failure until one fails. By then the cascade is already moving.
02Your exposure
The same node fails for everyone. Only some saw it coming.
Risk & resilience
How far, how fast, how much?
A 30/60/90-day cascade timeline: production days lost, revenue at risk, and the substitutes that exist — ranked by impact, not by alert volume.
TriggerA chokepoint closes, a region destabilizes.
Operations
What do we move first?
The handful of actions that actually change the outcome — qualify this alternate, pre-position that input — scored across cost, risk and time.
TriggerA war room spins up and needs a decision.
03How the exposure map reads it
One engine. The same exposure spine every door opens.
01Integrate
Start from the data you already own.
Your bill of materials, purchase orders and trade records — fused with observed external signal. No survey. No waiting on a supplier to self-report. We map what is declared and lay it against what is actually moving.
02Rank
Surface what is load-bearing.
A map of everything is still noise. GRID ranks the cascade by what it does to your production days and revenue — the deep-tier node that actually carries your line surfaces first.
03Decide
Read your exposure before it lands.
A cascade timeline you can act on: which alternate to qualify, which chokepoint to hedge, scored across cost, risk and time. Every node labeled — corroborated, divergent or unobserved. We never inflate a guess into proof.
Every door into one exposure engine.
Cascade risk is the disruption door. It is the same map underneath — opened by a different trigger. Walk in through whichever one is on your desk today.
Find the node that carries your line.
A scoped pilot on one product line. We trace its dependency to n-tier, fuse it with live logistics and risk, and hand you the cascade map before the next node fails.
What you will have at day 60
- 01Your n-tier dependency map, surfaced from BOM — no survey.
- 02A 30/60/90-day cascade forecast on the scope you select.
- 03Exposure ranked by how far the shock actually travels.
- 04Every node labeled — corroborated, divergent or unobserved.