Decision playbook
Dependencies, plausible disruption pathways, warning indicators, and sourcing options. The playbook identifies assumptions to test and information gaps that affect the assessment.
The engagement
The Geopolitical
Exposure Review
Understand what could interrupt access to critical inputs, whether alternatives share the exposure, and which developments could warrant a decision.
Begin with a decision
your business faces.
A sourcing change, a concentrated input, or an uncertain trade route gives the review a practical starting point. Together, we define the exposure to examine and the decisions the analysis needs to support.
Highlands combines open-source research with your team’s knowledge of specifications, suppliers, inventory, and operating constraints. The scope follows the problem.
What your team receives
A usable playbook.
A briefing to explain it.
Built around agreed inputs and decisions
The review connects potential disruptions with observable indicators and decision points. It explains the evidence, the analytical judgments, and what remains uncertain.
Discuss an exposure (opens Calendly in a new tab)Team briefing
A guided discussion of the analysis and how to use it, with time to challenge assumptions and relate the findings to your operating reality.
Optional monitoring
A continuing watch on agreed indicators, with reassessment as conditions change. The review stands on its own; monitoring is a separate choice.
How we work
From the input
to the decision.
Define the question
Agree on the critical inputs, sourcing decisions, relevant constraints, and boundaries of the review.
Trace the exposure
Examine producing origins, processing dependencies, routes, and external conditions. Test whether alternatives face the same pressures.
Develop the pathways
Set out plausible ways conditions could change, what would make each consequential, and what evidence would change the assessment.
Brief the decisions
Connect indicators to the options your team can consider, taking account of inventory, qualification time, and commercial commitments.
A useful fit
Complex supply chains.
Specific concerns.
You may import directly, or buy domestically from suppliers with overseas dependencies. Revenue alone does not determine fit.
- Critical materials or components have few qualified substitutes.
- Replacement sources take time to qualify.
- Alternative suppliers rely on the same region or route.
- Leadership is weighing a sourcing change.
What we need from you
Your operating context.
A starting list of critical inputs, known suppliers and locations, important routes, inventory coverage, and constraints on substitution. Gaps can be identified during scoping.
Your team retains purchasing and execution responsibility. Highlands provides advisory analysis; legal and compliance interpretations remain with the relevant specialists.
Questions about scope, timing, and feesStart with a critical input.
Bring a material, a supplier concern, or a sourcing decision.