Your Plans Are Only as Strong as Your Suppliers: Protecting Production When Disruption Hits

Manufacturers have invested heavily in business continuity and operational resilience, yet many disruptions originate outside their own organization. A supplier outage, logistics interruption, cyber incident, or technology failure can cascade throughout production and quickly affect customers, revenue, safety, and reputation. 

This webinar brings together procurement expertise from CIPS and resilience expertise from Fusion Risk Management to discuss how organizations can strengthen supplier continuity before disruption occurs. 

Attendees will learn how procurement, supply chain, operations, risk, and resilience teams can work together to identify suppliers that truly matter to production, understand business impact beyond supplier spend, evaluate substitutability, and improve supplier preparedness through governance, evidence, and testing. 

Rather than treating supplier continuity as a procurement exercise alone, organizations can build a connected approach that improves visibility into dependencies, strengthens decision making, and supports faster response when disruption occurs. 

Key Takeaways 

• Identify continuity-critical suppliers beyond procurement spend  
• Assess supplier impact and substitutability  
• Recognize cascading risk across production, logistics, technology, and customers  
• Apply procurement frameworks to business continuity planning  
• Turn supplier recovery expectations into measurable obligations and evidence  
• Strengthen supplier continuity governance across procurement, operations, and resilience teams