The Supply Chain Question

The same week a questionnaire arrives from a customer, you send one to a supplier. Nobody can say which of the sixty rows actually matter.

This book answers one question, completely, and says plainly where it stops.

• What a supplier already owes you by law, from when, and on what condition

• What nobody owes you - and therefore what you have to buy or negotiate

• The few questions whose answers really separate one supplier from another

• How to tell a real answer from one that merely sounds like one

• What your own answer commits you to when the questionnaire is pointed at you

What it deliberately does not give you. No configuration guidance, no checklists to copy, no templates. Every date, article and threshold in it was read from the official text of the instrument concerned, on the date stated inside, and quoted rather than described.

Who it is for. Purchasing, quality, engineering, and anyone who signs what goes back to a customer.

Part of The 2027 Series - six books on industrial (OT) cybersecurity under the new EU rules. They are not numbered and are not a course: each answers one question for one kind of company, and the closing pages say which of the others answers yours.