Logistics

Roles: supply-chain, upstream, downstream, provenance, chain-of-custody, manifest, shipment, intermediary

The movement of goods through a chain of intermediaries from origin to destination. Each link in the chain trusts the previous one and passes materials forward. Rich source domain for dependency relationships, transitive trust, and contamination-through-the-chain reasoning in software and security contexts.

As Source Frame (4)

• Databases Are Warehouses → data-processing
• Information Overload → decision-making, knowledge-management
• Messages Are Physical Mail → network-communication
• Supply Chain Attack → security-analysis

Applied To This Frame (1)

• military-history → An Army Marches on Its Stomach