Describe potential disruptions
Together, describe the affected goods or services, sites, duration and extent of an interruption.
UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT
Assess the impact of supplier disruptions.
What would a supplier disruption mean for your business? We examine its effects on value creation, customers and financial performance, so you can focus preventive measures on the dependencies that matter most.
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A small component can have a major impact. Analysing disruption consequences, or supplier business impact, reveals which suppliers and services need particular attention.
THE STARTING POINT
Not every supplier disruption has the same consequences.
- Many suppliers receive the same attention, even though the consequences of their failure vary greatly.
- Risk scores and procurement spend alone are not enough to prioritise critical dependencies.
- Relevant information is spread across material, revenue, inventory and business team data.
OUR SUPPORT
Understand the business impact of disruptions.
Identify dependencies and buffers
Identify affected materials and processes, available inventory buffers and how quickly a replacement could be obtained.
Assess the impact
Evaluate financial and operational consequences with your business teams and clarify open questions.
Set action priorities
Use the findings to support risk monitoring, contingency planning and the selection of suitable measures.
HOW WE WORK
How we develop your impact assessment.
Identify sources
Identify data, systems and contacts.
Develop the model
Agree criteria, thresholds and responsibilities.
Pilot and expand
Test the assessment with selected suppliers, refine it where necessary and extend it to other areas.
YOUR OUTCOME
A basis for targeted prevention.
We align deliverables with your goals and the agreed project scope.
Scenarios and assessment criteria
Consistent assumptions for the disruptions considered and their consequences.
Traceable data
Sources, data owners, estimates and remaining uncertainties.
Justified criticality categories
Classification of suppliers and services based on your business dependencies.
Starting points for prevention
Priorities for further investigation of alternatives, buffers and contingency measures.
HOW WE SUPPORT YOU
Identify where a disruption would hit your business hardest
Clarify the duration and extent of a disruption
The consequences depend on which supply or service is missing and how long the interruption lasts. Together, we examine affected sites, products and processes. We also assess how long existing inventory would help and whether alternative suppliers could step in.
Look beyond procurement spend
Even a low-cost component can be essential to an important product. A service failure can interrupt core business processes. Alongside financial consequences, we therefore consider replacement options and the impact on your customers. We make it clear where estimates are used.
Use the findings to prepare
Which suppliers should you monitor more closely? Where would alternatives, extra inventory or contingency plans make sense? We discuss the findings with the teams involved and identify starting points for prevention, keeping the underlying assumptions transparent.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Good to know.
What does this add to our risk score?
A risk score alone does not show what a disruption would mean for your business. We add an assessment of your specific dependency on a supplier, for example through critical materials, a lack of alternatives or affected customer products.
Can we start with incomplete data?
Yes. We use available information and your teams' knowledge. Where precise figures are missing, we work with agreed estimates and highlight which information still needs verification.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Where would an interruption be particularly critical for you?
Let us use a supplier, material or process to discuss the impacts you already understand and the information still needed to set well-founded priorities.