How is the supply chain interrelated with business continuity?

1. How the supply chain is interrelated with business continuity

Depending on your business continuity objectives, a disruption in the supply chain may have a big impact on the business. For example, if you work with "just in time" supplies (i.e., you only have minimal stock of raw material), a disruption of your supply chain may disrupt your production line, even if the disruptive incident is hundreds of miles away from your facilities.

To have a better view of how your supply chain can affect your business, you should perform a Business Impact Analysis.

For further information, see:

• Setting the business continuity objectives in ISO 22301 https://advisera.com/27001academy/blog/2014/02/17/setting-the-business-continuity-objectives-in-iso-22301/
• How to implement business impact analysis (BIA) according to ISO 22301 https://advisera.com/27001academy/knowledgebase/how-to-implement-business-impact-analysis-bia-according-to-iso-22301/

2. How to generate the emergency plan during the breakdown of any of the links

Once you have identified the disruptive scenarios you have to handle, broadly speaking, the development of a continuity plan based on ISO 22301: 2012 requires the development of:

• incident response plans, with emergency actions to be performed right after the disruption being identified;
• continuity actions to bring activities back to the minimum agreed levels;
• recovery actions to bring activities back to normal operations.

These materials will provide you a further explanation about developing a continuity plan:

• Business continuity plan: How to structure it according to ISO 22301 https://advisera.com/27001academy/knowledgebase/business-continuity-plan-how-to-structure-it-according-to-iso-22301/
• How to write business continuity plans? https://advisera.com/27001academy/blog/2010/04/08/how-to-write-business-continuity-plans/
• Writing a business continuity plan according to ISO 22301 [free webinar on demand] https://advisera.com/27001academy/webinar/writing-a-business-continuity-plan-according-to-iso-22301-free-webinar-on-demand/
• Book Becoming Resilient: The Definitive Guide to ISO 22301 Implementation https://advisera.com/books/becoming-resilient-the-definitive-guide-to-iso-22301-implementation/

To see how a Business Continuity Plan compliant with ISO 22301 looks like, I suggest you see the free demo of our Business Continuity Plan at this link: https://advisera.com/27001academy/documentation/business-continuity-plan/