Business Continuity Dependency Check for Critical Vendors
Check what happens if a key supplier fails.
Added October 15, 2026. Written with AI assistance and checked for clarity and placeholders; not reviewed by a lawyer, accountant, clinician or other professional. How these prompts are made
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Assess dependency. Critical vendors and what we rely on them for: [CRITICAL_VENDORS]. Alternatives and switching time: [ALTERNATIVES]. Our tolerance for downtime: [TOLERANCE]. For each vendor, estimate impact of a day, a week and a month of outage, identify workarounds, data export options and contract exit terms. Rate concentration risk. Return a table, a plan for the top three dependencies and tests such as practising a data export. Add a worked impact table: payment provider outage of a day causes lost sales of about 2,000; a week, 14,000 plus reputational damage; a month would be unsustainable. Workaround: manual invoices for regular customers; alternative provider takes two weeks to set up. Action: set up a standby provider account now. Add an annual test of data export from critical vendors. Add a worked ranking of three vendors by impact and time to switch, with a simple score from 1 to 5 each and the product shown: payment provider 5 x 4 = 20; email tool 3 x 2 = 6; accounting software 4 x 3 = 12. Priorities follow the scores. Add a rehearsal plan for the top one.
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