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Download the Supplier Business Continuity clause template here.
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About this template
- A supplier business continuity schedule with appropriate clauses will help clarify your expectations of the supplier’s roles and responsibilities before, during and after a disruptive incident.
- Clauses can also be used to make sure your time critical suppliers continue to maintain their business continuity solutions. For example, if you identified particularly good solutions during the supplier due diligence process, you may want to make sure these are continued for the duration of your contract.
- Clauses could also be added to make sure your time critical suppliers have an exercise and/or test schedule in place to validate their business continuity solutions.
- Finally, you may want to include a clause that checks your time critical suppliers check their time critical suppliers have appropriate plans in place.
The supplier business continuity clause template will need to be customized to your organization and the supplier’s services.
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PURPOSE
A business continuity schedule helps clarify your expectations of the supplier before, during and after a disruptive incident. Clauses can be used to make sure the supplier maintains and continues to validate their business continuity solutions to protect the delivery of their products or services to your business.
TOP TIPS
You could ask for a copy of the supplier’s business continuity plan before you engage in a contract. This will help you understand the business continuity solutions they have in place for the products or services they would provide. You should check the solutions resume their products or services to you within your recovery time objective, otherwise they may not be appropriate.
For more information on Business Continuity, we recommend looking at the Business Continuity Institute’s Good Practice Guidelines.
FACT
Your organization can have the best business continuity plans in place, but if a time critical supplier experiences a disruptive incident it can still seriously impact your business.