Merrivale Academy Trust's three schools resting on a beam held up by eight props of wildly different quality — the records system, payroll bureau, parent payments, broadband, catering, the cleaner, the alarm company and the IT company — out of forty-one suppliers nobody had written down. Beside it, six suppliers chosen separately over eight years that all ran on one platform underneath and went down together one Thursday in March; and the catering contractor, the largest supplier by value, against the top four by consequence, whose combined cost was less.

CY-BEGINNER-040Beginner · Third-Party Risk

Somebody Else's Hands — Depending On People You Don't Control

What you actually bought as against what you actually depend on, what each supplier can reach, the suppliers behind your suppliers, what happens on their bad week, and how you would ever get your things back.

11 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

Separate what you bought from what you depend on, count suppliers honestly, and rank them by what would stop rather than what they cost.
Sort suppliers by what they can actually reach, and find the quiet high-reach ones that no list contains.
Ask who else is involved behind a supplier, spot concentration, and ask the four questions while you still have leverage.
Handle a supplier's bad week, recognise all four ways they go away, and keep one honest page that outlives you.

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