A geopolitical event often enters an organisation indirectly. Senior leadership may first encounter it through news or a regulatory update, while procurement hears from a supplier, logistics sees a carrier changing its routing, and finance notices movement in currencies or payment conditions.
According to Navigating Supply Chain Challenges by Dr. Uppiliappan Gopalan, this scattered arrival of information is exactly what makes the earliest hours of a crisis so difficult to manage well.
Surrounded by Information, Short on Understanding
Sales may receive customer questions before the supply chain team has completed its own assessment. During the first few hours, the organisation can therefore be surrounded by information while still lacking a clear understanding of what has actually changed for the business.
Why Preparedness Determines the First Response
Dr. Gopalan’s framework for managing supply chains during geopolitical crises centres on exactly this gap, building the structures and clarity in advance that allow an organisation to move from scattered information to coordinated understanding within hours, not days.
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