Proactive Resilience

The more complex your supply chain, the more inefficient traditional approaches to risk management become. The fact that risk is infinite, but budget is finite, poses one key question: where should you invest your mitigation budget to build a more resilient supply chain?

The solution? Proactive resilience by Prewave. Our approach combines our AI-based solution with your purchasing and revenue data to calculate precise ROI figures based on projected revenues lost: a risk mitigation model based on net revenue impact, not risk probability.

Supply chain disruption is not a question of if, but when. This means that your approach must be more than reactive: the capability to proactively build supply chains that are resilient and cost effective is key.

Prewave’s Proactive Resilience is the ultimate solution to achieve a stronger supply chain: preserving business continuity, reducing revenue-at-risk, and ensuring that every resilience investment delivers maximum return.

Effective mitigation is about understanding how much risk you can prevent for a specific level of investment. To do this, you need to define the exact revenue impact of risk events. Simplified: what would happen if a supplier would fail, and how likely is that to happen?



Our revenue-focused approach – which combines Hilti’s business interruption model with unrivalled access to risk data – prioritises mitigation at specific, high-impact suppliers. Prewave helps you calculate the exact probability of risk happening against the cost to build the safety stock, helping you choose the best-fitting actions and achieve the optimal ROI.

Proactive resilience by Prewave is at the core of Kärcher’s innovative, holistic and sustainable supplier risk management. Their approach anticipates the potential of upcoming risks and their real impact on sales: putting business interruption theory into practice.

Using Prewave, Kärcher has developed a clear strategy and prioritisation principles for risk mitigation – measuring risks in figures and focusing on achieving maximum ROI. In some cases, investments in the thousands of Euros have reduced damage potential in the millions.

While traditional risk assessments based on country, industry, and commodity benchmarks provide valuable insights, Prewave probability scores offer a precise and dynamic evaluation of supplier risks: from natural disasters, to insolvency events, to regulatory violations and more.

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