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Corridor exposure is not “external events”
Generic ERM templates love a bucket called external events. In Taiwan’s industrial corridor that bucket becomes a junk drawer: typhoons, strait politics, a skipped sailing, a tool vendor in a single township. Operators already live these facts. The register pretends they are weather.
SiteTrail Grid puts corridor facts on the same sheet as tooling lead times. A port window is a constraint with a name, a season, and a person who hears the delay first. A typhoon week is not a color; it is a set of roads, tankers, and night crews who cannot reach a second site that looked dual on a slide.
Working from Tali Hsiang, we still ask clients in Kaohsiung or Hsinchu to draw their own geography. Copying a Taichung map onto another coast is how you get a tourist brochure. The method travels. The trails do not.
If your current framework insists that geography is “context,” keep the framework for auditors and keep a grid for the people who move parts. Two documents is cheaper than one elegant fiction.