Resource Library/Supplier Quality and Supply Chain/Supplier Business Continuity Assessment
Supplier Business Continuity Assessment
Find out which suppliers could stop your deliveries, how long you could keep shipping without them, and how ready they are to recover: ten plain questions, an exposure gap in weeks, and the actions that close it.
- Excel
- fillable PDF
- Worked example
- Your logo on it
- Aegis Insights
Page 1 of the PDF. Every resource includes a fully worked example.
The problem it solves
Supplier risk reviews in most shops look at quality and delivery history and stop there. The supplier that has never had a reject can still stop you dead: one furnace, one anodize line, one programmer who knows the job, a die that only fits one press, records on one computer. By the time you find out, your customer is asking for a recovery date. This workbook looks forward. For each critical supplier it measures your exposure in weeks (time to qualify an alternate, less the cover you hold), asks the supplier ten plain preparedness questions, flags where you are exposed and unprepared, and tracks the actions that close the gap.
Who uses it
Supply chain and purchasing managers, supplier quality engineers, and the operations leader who owns risks and opportunities.
When
Once a year for every critical supplier, at approval for any new sole or single source, and again after any disruption, ownership change or warning sign (late payments, lost key people, capacity trouble).
Free to use, change and copy, in your own organization or with your clients; add your own logo, keep the Aegis credit. Part of: Supplier Performance and Recovery Kit. Clause references: 6.1, 8.1.1, 8.4.1 (numbers only; use your own licensed copy of the standard).
A management aid, not certification or a registrar audit. Using it does not by itself show conformity to AS9100D or any other standard.
How to put it to work
Chapters of our free guides that use this tool.
- The kit at a glanceThe Supplier Performance and Recovery Kit Handbook, chapter 2
- The supplier control workflowThe Supplier Performance and Recovery Kit Handbook, chapter 3
- Rating risk and setting the level of controlThe Supplier Performance and Recovery Kit Handbook, chapter 6
- Running the systemThe Supplier Performance and Recovery Kit Handbook, chapter 13
- Quick referenceThe Supplier Performance and Recovery Kit Handbook, chapter 17
- Where the kit touches AS9100DThe Supplier Performance and Recovery Kit Handbook, chapter 18
Related resources
-
Workbook
Supplier Concentration Risk Assessment
See how much of your business rests on a few suppliers: share of spend, part numbers with no alternate, revenue that depends on each source, time to replace it, and the sub-tier sources your suppliers quietly share.
Excel · PDFFree download -
Workbook
Supplier Risk Assessment Matrix
Rate every supplier on how much a failure would hurt and how likely one is, with eight plain factors and weights you control, then let the rating set how closely you watch each one.
Excel · PDFFree by email -
Workbook
Supplier Risk Escalation Matrix
Six escalation levels with written triggers, actions, exit criteria and time limits; a trigger screen that applies your rules the same way to every supplier; and a register of every case and every change of level.
Excel · PDFFree download -
Workbook
Supplier Recovery Plan and 30/60/90-Day Planner
Turn a failing supplier you still need into a written plan with both sides' commitments, exit criteria and consequences agreed up front, weekly figures, an action plan by phase, and a decision at day 30, 60 and 90.
Excel · PDFFree by email -
Workbook
Risks and Opportunities Register
One register for the quality system's risks and opportunities: each written as 'if ... then ...', rated on scales you set, treated with an owned action, re-rated afterward and checked, with a heat map and a summary for management review.
Excel · PDFFree download -
Workbook
Supplier Surveillance Planning Matrix
Set the type and extent of oversight for every supplier from its risk and performance, plan the year's audits, source inspections and reviews, and track what was done and what it changed.
Excel · PDFFree download
Need more than one resource, or not sure where to start? Book a complimentary 30-minute Aegis Quality Guidance Call. We'll find the tools that fit your situation and a sensible place to start. No sales pressure, no obligation.
These tools help you run the work by hand. When you want the whole picture of your quality system from the records you already keep, that's what the AeroAssure Audit Defense Pack and the IA9100 Transition Gap Analysis do.