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Your regions use the same words to mean different things
One shared definition across regions, and a record of who made each decision and on what basis. Three regions can run the same report and mean three different things by the same word, and every reconciliation after that is spent arguing about the word rather than the number.
A shared data model and record
KXCO Round Table keeps a shared data model, called an ontology, and a record of the claims held in it. The ontology is a data model, not an AI model. Each recorded act is attributed to the person or system that took it and linked by hash to the entry before it, so a later change can be detected. A third party can check that the record has not changed since it was recorded, without relying on KXCO's word. That check does not show that the entries are true. Automated ingestion proposes entries, and people decide which ones are accepted.
Written for group chief operating officers, heads of supply chain and regional operating boards.
Three regions, three meanings of one word
- One word, several definitions. Your group has one word for vendor and several definitions of it. The data model makes the definition explicit, once, and each region refers to it rather than rebuilding it.
- One standard, four regimes. Which entity is in scope for which obligation is a question about relationships, not about which spreadsheet a subsidiary appears in.
- One designation, and what it reaches. A real query result against an illustrative graph, following a single designation out to everything it touches.
- Notified is not done. Sending a change does not show that it took effect. Round Table records an action and its effect as two separate claims.
One definition, referenced everywhere
- The supplier behind your supplier is a dependency nobody wrote down.
- Scope, coverage and regional obligations are answered by a query that follows the relationships in the record, rather than by a working group.
- An action being taken and its effect being true are treated as two different claims.
- Key-person and single-site dependencies become visible instead of anecdotal.
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Eleven pages, written for global operations teams. Sent on request, not published. Email [email protected] and ask for the Round Table pack for global operations.