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Navigating the supply chain impact of COVID-19

Resiliency in the Extended Enterprise

In this piece, we examine the impact of COVID-19 from a supply chain perspective. As the effects of the Coronavirus are felt around the world, governments’ and business’s primary focus is the safety of their people. While this focus will continue, we are now seeing a number of our corporate clients facing weeks, if not months, of uncertain trading conditions. Whether it is your business, your supplier’s business or your customer’s business, there is potential to suffer disruption along the supply chain – but there is also an opportunity to emerge stronger than before. 

Insight and lessons:

• Resiliency in the extended enterprise
• Identify and asses risk
• External sources can fill gaps
• Contingency planning
• Respond and recover
• Emerge stronger