Supply Chain Resilience: Creating an Effective Risk Management Plan | UpGuard

This document is a step-by-step guide to Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM), covering risk identification, assessment and tiering, mitigation strategies, continuous monitoring and reporting, regulatory compliance, and ongoing improvement and collaboration. It highlights common risk categories—including cyber, geopolitical, man-made, natural, reputational, and financial—along with tools such as attack surface visibility, vendor risk management, code verification, and geopolitical intelligence. The guide emphasizes benefits like operational continuity, financial stability, reputation, and competitive advantage, and concludes by promoting UpGuard’s Vendor Risk management platform and its features (security questionnaires, ratings, assessments, continuous monitoring, reporting, and managed services).