Operational Resilience Starts With Procurement: Why UK SMEs Should Be Treating Utility Contracts as Strategic Decisions, Not Administrative Tasks
Most conversations about operational resilience in UK small business focus on the visible parts. Cash reserves. Supplier redundancy. Customer concentration. Inventory buffers. The kind of contingencies that show up in continuity planning documents and get talked about during management meetings. What rarely makes those documents is the boring infrastructure of procurement, particularly utility procurement. Yet … Read more