•Supply Chain Resiliency by Design Supply chain engineers undertook proactive efforts in the design and execution of the supply chain in terms of equipment, processes, manufacturing sites and external services, with a primary purpose of reducing the length of time and the extent of post- disaster recovery necessary. The supply chain resiliency team worked closely with manufacturing operations, suppliers, logistics and transportation service providers and other stakeholders to identify nodes and supply chain processes that were outside risk qualification tolerances acceptable to Cisco. Working with these partners, the company developed resiliency plans for the extended supply chain too, as a routine part of the supply chain design process. 4