Third-Party & Supply Chain Resilience

In a world of interconnected operations, third-party and supply chain resilience has become a cornerstone of enterprise risk management. From IT service providers to critical suppliers, the continuity of your business increasingly depends on the ability of others to respond to disruption. Without proper visibility and alignment, even the best internal crisis plans can collapse under third-party failure.
At WePlanBefore, we help organizations assess, structure, and strengthen their vendor ecosystem to ensure that external partners are not the weakest link in your resilience chain. We align third-party management with regulatory requirements such as DORA, GDPR, NIS2, FCA guidelines, and ISO 27036, helping you reduce operational risk, improve crisis response coordination, and enhance business continuity across your supply network.
Our work bridges legal, operational, and crisis management perspectives. From vendor due diligence to contractual resilience clauses, we ensure that your supplier relationships are not only compliant but prepared. We design protocols that foster collaboration with partners during disruption, helping businesses maintain critical operations, protect customer expectations, and meet regulatory obligations.
In complex, regulated industries—such as financial services, energy, healthcare, and technology—third-party resilience is no longer a procurement issue: it’s a board-level priority. With increasing scrutiny from regulators like the FCA, organizations must demonstrate that vendor risks are identified, mitigated, and governed with the same level of rigor as internal operations. We bring deep experience and practical frameworks to support your organization in building robust, scalable, and accountable third-party resilience programs.

How do we do?

• Third-Party Risk Assessments & Due Diligence: We assess the resilience posture of critical vendors and partners, evaluating their crisis preparedness, continuity planning, and compliance with standards like DORA, GDPR, NIS2, and ISO 27036. Our assessments help organizations identify vulnerabilities, manage risk exposure, and implement targeted improvements across their supply chain.
• Contractual Resilience Requirements & SLAs: We support the integration of resilience and crisis response obligations into vendor contracts and service-level agreements (SLAs). This includes escalation procedures, recovery time objectives (RTOs), continuity metrics, and reporting expectations that ensure partners are legally accountable and operationally aligned.
• Crisis Response & Recovery Plans for Vendors: We design and align vendor crisis response and recovery plans to match your internal business continuity frameworks. This includes ensuring clarity on roles, communication flows, activation triggers, and post-incident coordination to reduce fragmentation and recovery delays during disruption.
• Vendor Crisis Response Alignment: We facilitate collaboration between organizations and their suppliers to integrate third-party response capabilities, test joint recovery procedures, and build governance structures that sustain operational continuity—even when disruptions occur beyond your direct control.

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Ensure your third-party ecosystem meets regulatory expectations and operational demands.