Written for: Operations directors
Plan for disruption as the base case
Resilient supply chains are not the ones that avoid disruption; they are the ones with a costed second option already agreed. Bromley Logistics builds this thinking into every network review, because every corridor we operate has, at some point, faced a strike, a duty change or a capacity shock.
The planning cadence
Annual network review, quarterly performance review, monthly exception review — each operating at a different altitude, from structural change down to individual shipment issues.
- Annual: mode mix, inventory positioning, supplier footprint
- Quarterly: service levels versus actuals
- Monthly: exceptions and root causes
What to hold in reserve
Alternate corridor, alternate mode and buffer stock on the SKUs where stock-out cost is highest. None of this needs to be large or expensive — it needs to be pre-agreed, costed and ready to activate rather than improvised under pressure.
Turning the plan into practice
A plan that lives in a document nobody has reopened since it was written is not a plan. Bromley Logistics' quarterly account reviews exist to keep this cadence real, testing the plan against what actually happened on the corridor that quarter.
