See vulnerabilities earlier, strengthen critical suppliers and respond decisively to disruption
A supplier may perform well today yet remain exposed to financial distress, capacity constraints, geopolitical events, cyber incidents, climate hazards or hidden upstream dependencies. Resilient organisations must understand both their immediate suppliers and the wider networks supporting critical operations.
This practical two-day workshop equips participants to identify supplier vulnerabilities, recognise early-warning signals and build supply arrangements that can withstand and recover from disruption.
Participants will segment suppliers by criticality, map multi-tier dependencies, assess interconnected risks and compare resilience options. The workshop culminates in a facilitated disruption simulation where teams make time-sensitive continuity and recovery decisions with incomplete information and constrained resources.
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What you will take away
- A critical-supplier risk profile
- An early-warning trigger matrix
- A disruption-response playbook
Working documents built during the two days, ready to apply in your organisation.
Two days, built for practice
- Align Risk and Resilience Strategy
Connect supplier-risk management with business priorities, risk appetite, critical operations and disruption tolerances.
- Segment Suppliers by Criticality
Evaluate dependency, substitutability, switching time, revenue exposure, operational impact and consequences of failure.
- Map Multi-Tier Supply Networks
Identify critical sites, materials, sub-tier suppliers, routes, geographic concentrations, chokepoints and shared dependencies.
- Assess Interconnected Supplier Risks
Evaluate financial, capacity, operational, quality, geopolitical, trade, climate, ESG and cybersecurity risks — and how they interact.
- Build Early-Warning Indicators
Set indicators and escalation triggers using performance, financial, quality, lead-time, capacity, cyber and external-event information.
- Select Resilience Measures
Compare dual sourcing, alternative materials, capacity reservation, strategic inventory, postponement, localisation and contractual protection.
- Strengthen Supplier Continuity
Review continuity plans, recovery capability, incident reporting, sub-tier dependencies and supplier-development actions.
- Simulate Disruption and Recovery
Respond to an evolving incident, prioritise critical requirements, coordinate stakeholders, manage communications and capture lessons.
For those who safeguard critical suppliers and supply
Procurement, category, strategic sourcing, supplier-relationship, supply chain and vendor-risk managers, plus experienced procurement executives responsible for critical suppliers or categories. Also relevant to operations, manufacturing, logistics, quality, business continuity, enterprise risk and information-security professionals involved in supplier assurance or operational recovery.
Deliver this programme in-house
Run it for your team at your premises — in Singapore or overseas — tailored to your organisation's categories and operations, or go further with a fully customised engagement.
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