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title: "Stress-Test Your Supply Chain Before a Disruption"
description: "### Overview This guide helps you find out what would happen if a vendor, a country or a route stopped working, before it happens, and turn the results into a plan. --- ### Before You Start - Complete supply lists…"
url: "https://scopematch.com/docs/stress-test-your-supply-chain/"
updated: "2026-11-05"
category: Guides
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# Stress-Test Your Supply Chain Before a Disruption

### Overview

This guide helps you find out what would happen if a vendor, a country or a route stopped working, before it happens, and turn the results into a plan.

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### Before You Start

- Complete supply lists with vendors, locations and products. See [Map Your Supply Chain](https://scopematch.com/docs/map-your-supply-chain/).
- Network Atlas is included on Pro and Premium. Supply Chain Insights and Disruption Simulation are included on Premium.

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### Steps

#### Step 1: Check your data

Make sure each list has its vendors, their locations and the products they supply. Missing data hides risk.

#### Step 2: Review your exposure

Open **Supply Chain Insights** and review products with limited or risky sourcing, catalog items without an active vendor, and where your products and vendors come from.

*Learn more: [Supply Chain Insights](https://scopematch.com/docs/supply-chain-insights/)*

#### Step 3: Run a Disruption Simulation

Simulate losing a key vendor, a country, or a country your suppliers source from. See which products would be at risk and which you could lose access to entirely.

*Learn more: [Disruption Simulation](https://scopematch.com/docs/disruption-simulation/)*

#### Step 4: Test routes and demand in Network Atlas

Use the what-if modes: break a connection, mark a route as strained, or raise or lower demand to see where stock-out or overstock risk appears. These modes only change what you see, not your data.

*Learn more: [Network Atlas](https://scopematch.com/docs/network-atlas/)*

#### Step 5: Download the report

Open the Network Atlas report for a summary, recommended actions and the product risk landscape, and download it as a PDF to share with your team.

#### Step 6: Act on the results

- Add alternative vendors for the products you would lose. See [Find and Fix Single-Source Risk](https://scopematch.com/docs/find-and-fix-single-source-risk/).
- Agree on buffer stock for critical products with your suppliers.
- Plan which vendors to evaluate or re-evaluate first.

#### Step 7: Repeat regularly

Run the test again each quarter, and when news in Recent News points to a new risk in one of your sourcing countries.

*Learn more: [Recent News](https://scopematch.com/docs/recent-news/)*

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### Tips

- Test several scenarios, not just the most obvious one.
- Start with your bottleneck vendors and your most concentrated countries.
- A what-if shows exposure, not a forecast; use it to set priorities.

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### What's Next

- [Find and Fix Single-Source Risk](https://scopematch.com/docs/find-and-fix-single-source-risk/).
- [Keep Vendor Compliance Current](https://scopematch.com/docs/keep-vendor-compliance-current/).

Need help? Contact us at [helprequest@scopematch.com](mailto:helprequest@scopematch.com).