Vocabulary Bank

the itemised parts list underneath a product — the map a resilience audit is drawn on

'given / added / exposed to' — the three-word concession that frees the main clause

production lines held ready but not run, paid for as insurance against a disruption whose date is unknown

the mismatched-subject participle that quietly raises the board's trust threshold

qualifying two suppliers for the same input, at a small cost premium, to remove a single-point-of-failure

the full cost of a unit delivered to the customer's dock, tariffs and freight included — the number that actually decides margin

relocating production closer to the end market, trading unit cost for lead time and geopolitical distance

the concatenation of past / present / perfect participles that carries a multi-step reconfiguration in one sentence

'given / added / exposed to' — the participle that concedes a fact the board already knows in three or four words

'having audited / concluded' — links a completed prior action to a present recommendation

'having audited / having concluded' — the participle that links a finished step to a present recommendation

'weighing / considering' — honestly represents ongoing analysis

'weighing / considering / reviewing' — the participle that honestly represents analysis still under way

the one supplier, port, chip or engineer whose loss halts the whole line

the discipline of matching the implicit subject of the participle to the subject of the main clause

the ability of a production network to absorb shocks without a compounding effect on downstream customers

the share of a company's cost base that would move up if a specific trade regime tightened