Product Feature
Z2 rates each disruption from Minor to Extreme and scores the probability it reaches your specific sites, so you act on the events that matter.
Overview
Tracking events near your suppliers is not the same as knowing which will hurt you. Event Severity and Impact, part of Supply Chain Watch, rates each disruption on a five-tier scale from Minor to Extreme, then weighs that magnitude against each site's resilience to produce an impact probability score. You get a quantified view of disruption type, expected duration, affected MPNs, and revenue at risk, and you filter for only the events that move your supply chain.
Z2 calculates a severity rating for every monitored event before it reaches your inbox. The five-tier scale runs Minor, Moderate, Major, Severe, and Extreme, classifying the raw magnitude of a disaster, conflict, trade restriction, or shortage independent of who is exposed. That gives every disruption a consistent, comparable measure, so a regional power outage and a major port closure are never treated as equal. Severity is the first filter: set thresholds and you are only notified when an event crosses the level that warrants attention, removing most of the irrelevant notifications that train teams to ignore alerts.
Severity describes the event. Impact describes what it does to you. After rating severity, Z2 weighs the event against each affected site's resilience to produce an impact probability score: the likelihood that a specific site of yours is actually disrupted. A Severe event at a hardened, diversified site can score lower than a Moderate event at a fragile single-source location. This builds on the predictive site risk model, which scores sites 0 to 100 from country variables, city factors, and incident history. Because Z2 already maps your MPNs to their manufacturing locations, impact analysis is personalized to your BOM, not a generic regional warning.
Each impact analysis estimates the type of disruption to expect, such as a manufacturing stoppage or shipping delay, along with an expected duration, so you can see how long a site is likely affected and in what form. Z2 then surfaces the affected MPNs and the revenue exposure tied to them, moving the conversation from "an earthquake happened near a supplier" to "these parts are at risk, for this long, with this dollar exposure." Sourcing, procurement, and continuity teams use that to prioritize response before the shortage hits.
Event Severity and Impact is built into Supply Chain Watch, alongside part-to-site mapping, site risk scoring, and event monitoring. Because the platform already traces your components to their sites and scores them, severity and impact run automatically against your footprint with no separate setup. Everything on the Alerts screen, including affected MPNs, is also delivered by email, so your team gets fewer, sharper alerts that each answer the only question that matters: does this event reach my parts.
A feature of
Event Severity & Impact is one capability inside Z2 Supply Chain Watch, real-time monitoring of disruptive events mapped to your parts and manufacturing sites, so you act before a disruption reaches your line.
Common Questions
Severity measures an event's raw magnitude, rated Minor to Extreme, independent of who is exposed. Impact is the probability that one of your sites is disrupted. Z2 calculates severity first, then weighs it against each site's resilience for the impact score.
Yes. Instead of a notification for every event near your footprint, you set severity thresholds and receive alerts only on events with a meaningful probability of reaching your parts, each carrying the affected MPNs and exposure.
For each relevant event, it estimates impact probability against your sites, the disruption type such as a stoppage or shipping delay, the expected duration, and the specific MPNs and revenue at risk. That is enough for sourcing and continuity teams to prioritize a response.
