A production line goes down at 2 a.m. Maintenance identifies the failed component within twenty minutes. Then the real problem starts: the part isn't in stock, the OEM's regional distributor doesn't answer after hours, and the plant's backup supplier carries a different manufacturer's line entirely. Six hours later, the line is still down—not because nobody knew what broke, but because nobody had a sourcing path ready for that specific failure. This is the situation that dete
