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Crisis management · Contingency activation

Your single-source API supplier reports a plant fire that halts shipments for an unknown period. Walk me through how you'd activate a supply-continuity response.

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I'd start with the brutal arithmetic: how much API and finished inventory we hold, our run rate, and therefore how many weeks or months of supply we truly have, including safety stock and work in process.…

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