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Retail Threat Mitigation
& Resilience Support

UK Supply Chains Are Under Pressure.
Is Your Business Ready For Your Future?

Food, fuel and essential goods supply chains are under growing pressure. Conflict, cyber-attacks, energy disruption, supplier fragility and economic instability are no longer distant risks. They are affecting supply chains now, putting pressure on availability, costs and resilience across UK retail.

Perfect Storm is UDSS’s senior-led risk and resilience offer for UK retail and supermarkets. It helps leadership teams protect and improve supply chain and corporate resilience by identifying the threats most likely to affect their business, prioritising what matters most, and shaping practical action. Drawing on relevant internal and external information sources, it is designed to move organisations from reactionary issue management towards future-focused risk and threat mitigation, with actionable recommendations that support better decision-making.

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What is the Perfect Storm?

Perfect Storm begins with a confidential executive or board-level discussion focused on the current and emerging threat landscape for your business. From there, UDSS can provide deeper analysis, targeted remedial support and ongoing advisory services where needed.

  • This is not a generic consultancy review.

  • It is a focused threat mitigation and resilience service built to help businesses identify vulnerabilities early, prevent costly disruption and avoid the far greater price of inaction.

  • It combines senior defence, intelligence and security expertise with commercial understanding and practical risk management.

 

Why it matters

Retail is operating in a more volatile environment where efficiency alone is not enough. Leadership teams need a clear view of the risks most likely to disrupt margin, continuity and customer confidence, and confidence that their organisation is ready to respond.

WHAT UDSS DELIVERS: FUTURE FOCUSED RESILIENCE

A prioritised risk picture

A clear view of the business risks that matter most and how they connect.

  • Gap identification

Insight into where controls are weak, missing or overly dependent on single points of failure. Assess exposure to, as yet, unidentified risks.

  • Stronger crisis preparedness

Improved incident response planning, escalation routes and scenario-based playbooks.

  • Supply chain risk visibility

A clearer understanding of supplier, logistics, warehousing and fuel dependencies.

  • Stronger cyber resilience

Support on cyber readiness, third-party risk and the operational impact of disruption. Assess exposure to in-bound paradigm shifts in digital technology and security.

  • Commercially relevant risk analysis

Risk linked to operational and financial impact, not just compliance.

  • Better organisational integration

More joined-up risk management across operations, security, supply chain, IT and leadership.

  • A practical roadmap

A phased plan covering immediate, medium-term and longer-term priorities.

  • Scenario planning and stress-testing

Testing how the business performs under supply, energy, cyber or wider systemic pressure.

  • Technical Resources Supporting

Technical support if internal teams would benefit.

How it works

1. Confidential executive briefing

A tailored high-level discussion on the threat landscape and what it means for your business.

2. Bespoke analysis

Targeted assessment work, such as risk register review or focused resilience analysis.

3. Remedial projects

Practical support to address identified gaps and improve resilience.

4. Ongoing advisory and technical support

Retained support, including bespoke briefings, reviews and rapid advice.

 

Perfect Storm is designed for:

  • Supermarket groups
  • Food and essentials retailers
  • Retail boards and executive teams
  • Operations, security, supply chain and risk leaders

THE QUESTION

Can you answer these questions? If not, now is the time to assess and strengthen your future resilience.
Do you know where your biggest operational vulnerabilities will emerge over the next 12 months?

Book a confidential executive discussion with UDSS to review the threats facing your business and identify where greater resilience is needed now.

Contact: laurence.postgate@universal-defence.com

Tel: +44 (0) 7956 620 879

Do you know which risks are most likely to disrupt your business before the year is out?

Book a confidential executive discussion with UDSS to review the threats facing your business and identify where greater resilience is needed now.

Contact: laurence.postgate@universal-defence.com

Tel: +44 (0) 7956 620 879

Do you know how your organisation would cope if multiple pressures hit at once?

Book a confidential executive discussion with UDSS to review the threats facing your business and identify where greater resilience is needed now.

Contact: laurence.postgate@universal-defence.com

Tel: +44 (0) 7956 620 879

Meet Our Experts

Laurence Postgate
Laurence Postgate UDSS Senior Consultant
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David Shouesmith
David Shouesmith UDSS Director & Business Resilience Lead
David Shouesmith was formerly ACDS in the UK MoD. He has extensive experience in operational military logistics and support acquisition in both the MoD and commercial sector.

His 28-year military career included service as ACDS (Logistic Operations) in the UK MoD and logistic command on operations from squadron to brigade level, from Bosnia to Afghanistan. He was also pivotal to many support transformation initiatives across Defence, in the land and joint domains, involving greater industry roles in delivering defence support. Since leaving the Army he has worked for large and small consultancies, advising commercial clients in a variety of sectors in strategy, critical programme management and strategic supply chain. David was the founding chairman of the Royal Logistic Corps Foundation, served as a colonel commandant of the Royal Logistic Corps for 15 years and is currently chairman of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum Trust.

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