Climate and Operational Risk, Mapped to Every Facility in your network.
Most risk frameworks tell you a facility is exposed.
RISK-ACES tells you why, how severe the impact could be, and where to act first, across climate, cost, and operational dimensions - for every site across your value chain.
RISK-ACES organizes facility-level risk across four dimensions — giving every site in your network a risk fingerprint that's comparable, explainable, and actionable.
A site can look stable on paper and still be one weather event, one infrastructure failure, or one logistics breakdown away from halting production. Availability captures the physical and operational risks that reduce a facility's ability to produce, move, or deliver — risks that often emerge suddenly and cascade fast.
A facility can stay operational and still become a liability. Cost risk captures how regional dynamics — trade exposure, geopolitical pressure, labour volatility — can quietly erode the economics of operating at a specific site, often before leadership has visibility to act.
Climate risk is no longer a future concern — it is already reshaping operating conditions, capital access, and regulatory requirements at the facility level. Water stress, emissions regulation, and shifting stakeholder expectations accumulate quietly until a site that was viable yesterday faces constraints on its licence to operate, its financing, or its long-term investability.
Two facilities can face identical risks and experience completely different outcomes. Sensitivity explains why — by measuring how vulnerable a specific site is given its role in the network, its dependencies, and the availability of alternatives if it goes down.
The RISK-ACES Process
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01Step 01Map what matters
Every network is different. We start by mapping yours — your facilities, suppliers, and co-manufacturers — and aligning on the decisions you need to support. Using the ACES framework, we define what risk means in your context and where visibility matters most.
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02Step 02Make risk explainable
Black boxes don't build confidence — in the boardroom, with investors, or with regulators. RISK-ACES is built to be transparent — assumptions, risk drivers, and sensitivity factors are visible and shared, so your teams understand why a site is flagged, not just that it is. No generic scoring. No unexplained outputs.
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03Step 03Pressure-test with reality
Risk models built in labs often fail in the field. We continuously challenge our assumptions through Accelerated Risk Trials — expert-led exercises that stress-test scenarios against real-world disruption pathways. This keeps ACES grounded, current, and defensible as conditions change.
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04Step 04Decide and act
Insight without direction isn't useful — whether you're managing a supplier network, reporting to a board, or responding to a climate disclosure requirement. RISK-ACES turns understanding into clear priorities: which facilities matter most, where alternatives exist, and what actions reduce exposure now and over time. So your teams always know where to focus and how to move forward with confidence.
Turning ACES Into Actionable Risk Insight
ACES doesn't assess risk drivers in isolation. Every facility is evaluated across Availability, Costs, Environmental pressures, and Sensitivity — producing a risk fingerprint that reveals not just where exposure exists, but how severe its impact could be and which sites matter most to your network's stability.
Compare facilities and suppliers side by side — on the same terms
Identify where risk is genuinely concentrated, not just theoretically present
Understand what is driving exposure and what it means for operations
Prioritize mitigation, contingency planning, and climate disclosure where it will have the most impact
A Methodology That Keeps Up With the World
Risk conditions don't stand still — and neither does ACES. Our methodology is continuously refined through Accelerated Risk Trials: structured, expert-led exercises that pressure-test assumptions, challenge scenarios, and validate that action logic holds up when disruption actually unfolds.
The result is a platform that reflects how the real world breaks — not how risk looks in a model.
Built for every time horizon.
When a disruption hits, response time matters. RISK-ACES connects real-time events directly to your most exposed facilities, with targeted alerts and recommended actions mapped to ACES risk drivers — so your team moves from awareness to response without losing critical time.
Sourcing strategies, manufacturing footprints, and capital investments all carry hidden risk assumptions. RISK-ACES makes those assumptions visible, enabling better decisions under changing conditions before commitments are locked in.
The decisions you make about facilities and supplier networks today will shape your resilience through 2035 and beyond. RISK-ACES integrates forward-looking climate scenarios through 2050 so strategic planning and investments are grounded in where the world is heading, not where it has been.
By incorporating Sensitivity, ACES ensures risk management focuses not just on where disruption is likely — but where it would matter most and how to act to mitigate escalation.
Your Network has Climate and Operational Exposure You Haven’t Mapped Yet.
Tell us about your facilities and the decisions you’re facing. We’ll show you exactly where the risk sits, what’s driving it, and what to do about it.