You don’t find the gaps in your contingency plan until you need it
Weather, geopolitical events, supplier failures, and disruptions can quickly expose critical dependencies. We identify key risks, stress-test scenarios, and build practical response plans so you know what to do when disruption occurs.
- 60 minutes. No cost. No obligation.
Risk builds quietly through concentration, limited alternatives, and dependencies that are not obvious until something fails. We identify where the business is most exposed and build practical contingency plans around the disruptions with the greatest business impact.
End to end
From assessment through implementation
You will find out how good the plan is at the worst moment.
You don't know which nodes are genuinely critical.
Plenty of suppliers, facilities, and providers, but no clear view of which ones would materially disrupt the business if they failed.
The contingency plan exists on paper only.
Nobody has run it, nobody owns it, and the person who wrote it has left.
Too much risk sits with one supplier, region, or capability.
Concentration built up through individually reasonable decisions, and nobody has stepped back to look at the total exposure.
A customer, auditor, or leadership team is asking questions.
You need a defensible answer about continuity, alternatives, and response readiness, and you do not yet have one.
Find the exposure, then rehearse the response.
Identify where the business is exposed.
We map critical suppliers, facilities, transportation flows, providers, regions, and operating dependencies to identify where disruption would have the greatest business impact.
Understand what happens when something fails.
We test realistic disruption scenarios to understand the business impact, available alternatives, response time, and where existing contingency plans may break down.
Build a response the team can actually run.
We build contingency plans with clear triggers, decision rights, owners, and fallbacks, then help the team test the response before it is needed.
The goal isn't zero risk. It's knowing which risks are worth protecting against.
Risk prioritized by business impact.
We focus on the exposures most likely to disrupt customers, revenue, or margin rather than protecting equally against everything.
Trade-offs considered together.
Contingency decisions affect sourcing, inventory, transportation, and finance. We weigh those together so solving one risk does not create another.
Plans tested before they're needed.
We establish ownership, triggers, and escalation paths, then test the plan with the people who will have to execute it.
What changes before the next disruption.
Visibility
A fact-based view of the suppliers, facilities, regions, transportation flows, and dependencies that carry the greatest risk.
Readiness
Clear triggers, decision rights, owners, alternatives, and escalation paths that the team has tested before they are needed.
Continuity
A stronger ability to protect supply continuity, customer service, and business performance when disruption occurs.
They quickly identified redundancies, restructured our network, and implemented a strategy that improved service levels while significantly reducing cost.
16 global distribution centers launched during a complex separation while protecting business continuity.
See how Leverage helped a global healthcare company stand up a 16-location distribution network during a complex spin-off while protecting business continuity through the transition.
Questions we hear about contingency and supply chain risk.
What happens when something critical fails?
- 60 minutes. No cost. No obligation.