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Supply Chain Continuity

What is Supply Chain Continuity?

Planning and measures to maintain supply chain operations during disruptions, including alternative suppliers and logistics arrangements.

Business Continuity

What the standards actually require on supply chain continuity

Requirements naming supply chain continuity across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

SCCM is the management process that finds how disruption in the supply chain could affect the organization and gives a way to handle it, because such disruption can hinder or stop delivery of products and services and damage revenue, market share and reputatio...

iso-ts-22318-2021::4.2.1 · 4.2.1 Supply chain continuity management: general →

The management review should include assessment of the status of actions from previous reviews; management system performance including trends in nonconformities and corrective actions, monitoring and measurement results and audit findings;

iso-22313-2020-guidance-on-business-continuity-management-systems::9.3.2 · 9.3.2 Management review input →

When the standard is applied inside an existing management system, a policy statement is written that fits the nature and scale of the threats, hazards, risks and their possible impacts on the organization's activities, functions, goods, services and supply ch...

iso-28002-2011::4.6 · 4.6 Resilience policy statement →

Third-party delivery management. Level 1 (a to c): monitoring of third-party service delivery against agreements; management of changes to third-party services; and a requirement that the upstream supply chain supporting the service meets MTCS.

mtcs-singapore::9.5 · Third-party delivery management →

Questions people ask about supply chain continuity

What is Supply Chain Continuity?
Planning and measures to maintain supply chain operations during disruptions, including alternative suppliers and logistics arrangements.
Why is Supply Chain Continuity important for compliance?
Supply Chain Continuity is a key concept in Business Continuity. Understanding supply chain continuity helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Supply Chain Continuity?
Supply Chain Continuity appears in the requirement text of ISO/TS 22318:2021, ISO 22313:2020 - Guidance on Business Continuity Management Systems, ISO 28002:2011, MTCS (Singapore). Across these standards we have identified 6 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Supply Chain Continuity?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how supply chain continuity applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

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