Assessing Supplier Resilience Against Disruptions
Supply chain disruptions can result from natural disasters, cyberattacks, pandemics, or infrastructure failures. A supplier’s ability to sustain operations—or recover swiftly—directly affects your business continuity. A Business Continuity Assessment evaluates a supplier’s plans and readiness to handle such events.
BQCIS auditors review Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) frameworks, verifying business impact analyses, recovery objectives, testing frequency, and communication protocols. We determine whether suppliers have practical, effective, and tested recovery measures in place.
Assessments often follow ISO 22301 principles, giving you confidence in supplier resilience and allowing for risk-based supplier segmentation and contingency planning.
Key Assessment Activities
Key Benefits of Business Continuity Assessment
Ensure Supply Continuity
Confirms that suppliers can sustain or restore key functions to keep your operations running during unexpected disruptions.
Identify Preparedness Gaps
Reveals shortcomings in BCP/DR documentation, testing frequency, or resource allocation before a real incident occurs.
Reduce Supply Chain Vulnerability
Strengthens your resilience against cascading disruptions by validating supplier risk mitigation capabilities.
Strengthen Strategic Partnerships
Encourages shared responsibility and continuous improvement between you and your critical suppliers.
Success Story
BCP Audit Reveals Critical Recovery Gaps for IT Supplier
A multinational bank relied heavily on a software vendor but lacked visibility into the vendor’s disaster recovery readiness for mission-critical systems.
BQCIS conducted a comprehensive Business Continuity Assessment, reviewing DR documentation, recovery time objectives, and recent test results. The audit included interviews and remote verification of backup infrastructure.
The assessment identified untested recovery servers and unrealistic recovery objectives. Following corrective actions, the vendor performed full-scale recovery testing, cutting estimated downtime from 48 hours to under 12, ensuring operational assurance.