Playbook: Assessing a Critical Supplier

What’s inside

1. The short version
2. Where this playbook starts
3. Step 1. Assess the service, not the company
4. Step 2. Set questions by exposure path
5. Step 3. Weigh the evidence by how much it can prove
6. Step 4. Review your own side of the integration
7. Step 5. Follow the update path
8. Step 6. Turn findings into decisions
9. Step 7. Decide what triggers reassessment
10. What the finished record looks like
11. Where assessments go wrong
12. A 90-day plan

Sources are listed in the full practitioner field note.