A CFO’s Guide to Vendor Availability Resilience
Vendor availability resilience can impact your organization financially within hours. You have invested in data backups, internet redundancy, and cybersecurity. You’ve budgeted for disaster recovery and business continuity. But what happens when an outage isn’t yours? When Shopify, Stripe, or Cloudflare goes down, your internal safeguards don’t matter. Orders freeze, payments fail, inventory data stops syncing, and your employees and customers wait. Most companies assume that their vendors’ uptime is reliable enough to trust. But if your revenue stops the moment a SaaS platform fails, you have more than an IT problem. You are risking a disruption in revenue continuity. The New Revenue Exposure No One Tracks Modern businesses don’t operate on their own systems anymore. They operate on a connected network of vendors: WMS, TMS, POS, accounting platforms, shipping…









