Supply Chain Risk and Resilience

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Overview

Supply Chain Risk and Resilience

Course Description

This course provides a practical, streamlined approach to building organizational resilience to disruptions. In our hyper-connected world, disruption is the new normal. Businesses face a relentless onslaught of risks – from supply chain breakdowns to cyber attacks and market shifts. Yet too many organizations rely on little more than hope when it comes to managing these threats. Course participants will discover how to leverage both classic risk management tools and cutting-edge technologies to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate a wide range of risks. Learn how to embed resilience planning into your regular business processes, so you are prepared for the unexpected.

Course Content

Module 1: Understanding Supply Chain Risk

  • Content: Types of risks (operational, financial, environmental, geopolitical, and cybersecurity) and their impact on business continuity and customer satisfaction
  • Key Takeaways: Frameworks for identifying and categorizing risks within an organization’s supply chain, including upstream and downstream risks

Module 2: Building a Risk Assessment Framework

  • Content: Methods for assessing risk, including failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), risk matrices, and vulnerability mapping
  • Key Takeaways: Tools and templates to prioritize risks based on likelihood, impact, and mitigation difficulty

Module 3: Developing Resilience Strategies

  • Content: Strategies for resilience, such as diversification, redundancy, supplier risk management, and disaster recovery
  • Key Takeaways: Actionable techniques to build flexibility into supply chains, reduce dependency on single suppliers, and prepare for disruptions

Module 4: Embedding Resilience in Company Culture and Governance

  • Content: Importance of leadership, communication, and training in maintaining a resilient supply chain
  • Key Takeaways: How to champion resilience in organizational culture, establishing governance frameworks to sustain risk management efforts

Module 5: Scenario Planning and Stress Testing

  • Content: Designing scenario-based exercises (e.g., what-if analyses) to test supply chain resilience
  • Key Takeaways: Practical approaches to anticipate disruptions, identify response weaknesses, and refine recovery plans

Module 6: Case Studies and Real-World Applications

  •  Content: Review of case studies illustrating successful and unsuccessful responses to major supply chain disruptions
  • Key Takeaways: Approaches taken by leading companies with practical takeaways that can be applied to participants' organizations

Module 7: Technology and Tools for Risk Management

  • Content: Overview of digital tools like predictive analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) for real-time monitoring, AI for demand forecasting, and supply chain risk management software
  • Key Takeaways: How to leverage technology for proactive risk identification, real-time monitoring, and scenario planning

Module 8: Developing an Action Plan for Resilience

  • Content: Guided workshop to develop a customized risk and resilience action plan
  • Key Takeaways: Outline of actionable steps for implementing upon returning to work that focus on high-priority risks and resilience measures
Requirements & Materials

Prerequisites

Some operational experience in logistics planning along with a basic level of understanding of your company's supply chain network are recommended.

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for supply chain planning professionals, risk management and identification specialists, industry and government officials who are responsible for critical infrastructure, and business leaders in any sector concerned with potential operational disruptions.

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What You Will Learn

  • Basics of supply chain risk identification and mitigation strategies
  • Ways to make supply chains more resilient and adaptable using leading-edge thinking
  • Processes for building comprehensive risk management and resilience plans that integrate seamlessly into annual planning and ongoing business operations
  • Conceptual frameworks as well as practical tools and techniques for dealing with supply chain disruptions
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How You Will Benefit

  • Discover frameworks and methodologies for proactively mapping your organization's supply chain risk profile.
  • Leverage data analytics, AI, and other technologies to enhance risk visibility.
  • Learn strategies for designing flexible, adaptable response plans that can be stress-tested and refined over time.
  • Practice creating detailed action plans for mitigating the impact of potential risks within your company and industry.
  • Develop a structured approach to disruption management, from initial incident response to restoring normal operations.
  • Gain knowledge and confidence in making resilience a core part of your organization's DNA, not just a siloed risk management exercise.
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