Every participant can be competent while the overall system still loses truth.
An enterprise inventory, a lessor schedule, a carrier scan, an erasure certificate, a processor grade, a buyer invoice, and a settlement worksheet may all be individually correct while remaining disconnected from one another. The risk lives between the records.
- Identity changes between source systems.
- Ownership obligations are separated from physical condition.
- Custody proof is separated from commercial consequence.
- Recovery and settlement are separated from original assumptions.