Supply chain resilience & risk management

1. Brief service summary

Identify critical dependencies in your supply chain and prepare responses to the disruptions considered. The engagement compares alternatives and their conditions, without presenting diversification or stockbuilding as a universal solution.

2. Your needs

Your activity depends on suppliers, components, sites or channels whose unavailability would have significant consequences. Replacement solutions are sometimes stated without sufficient verification of their constraints.

You wish to prioritize exposures and prepare proportionate decisions before a disruption occurs.

3. Objectives of the engagement

The engagement aims to map dependencies, build scenarios and examine possible responses. It helps distinguish identified alternatives, documented capacities and measures actually prepared.

The objective is to organize the responsibilities and checks needed for a resilience approach suited to the products and activities concerned.

4. Indicative scope

Work may cover critical categories, suppliers, locations, flows and warning information. The consequences of agreed scenarios are examined with operational and financial managers.

Options may involve diversification, backup resources, inventory or adjustments to operations. Their costs, preparation times and constraints are made visible, without presuming the technical qualification or availability of alternatives.

5. Possible delivery arrangements

Document review, interviews and scenario workshops provide a basis for preparing choices. Supplier verification or an exercise may be proposed under a separate mandate, with defined safety rules and criteria.

6. Possible deliverables

Deliverables may include a dependency map, a risk register, a comparison of responses and a preparation and monitoring programme.

7. Conditions and limitations

No availability, continuity or absence of disruption is guaranteed. Emergency purchasing, technical qualification and supplier commitments are not automatically included. External information requires verification. Service 11.07 structures overall continuity; 08.10 addresses operational responses and 09.07 routine inventory rules.