Program Outline

1. Introductions and Expectations
Introductions of workshop participants, identify individual expectations and learning objectives, and review overall training objectives.

2. Review of the Foundational Concepts for Understanding Global Supply Chain Strategy
You will gain a fundamental understanding of global supply strategy, how it has changed, and where it is heading.

3. What makes up a supply chain — what is its composition?
In this segment, you will explore the concept and evolution of supply chains in terms of physical, informational, and financial flows to gain a thorough understanding of how your supply chain works

4. Today’s Global Supply Chain Challenges
Understand and learn how to balance the three key supply chain performance objectives

5. Supply Chain Risk Management

• Why is the topic of supply chain risk so important today?
• Understanding why there is increasing occurrence of supply chain risk
• How do executives currently view supply chain risks, and how is that changing?

6. The Context to Enterprise Risk Management

• To understand the proper context of supply chain risk in an ERM framework
• To understand the potential for conflict in goals
• Outline the current maturity of practice

7. Which Supply Chains are the Most Vulnerable to Risk?
Here, you will learn to determine which links in the supply chain are most susceptible to risk and which segments are the most vulnerable.

8. What are challenges that need to be overcome in strategy formulation or actual occurrence?
Outline the top five internal challenges slowing the development of supply chain risk management strategies, and how to overcome them

9. A working definition of Supply Chain Risk Management
You will be provided with working definitions that can be tailkored to your organization to help understand and promote company buy-in

10. Review of how supply chain professionals currently view supply chain risk

• How do recognized leaders identify and measure supply chain risk?
• Outline and understand the common traits of innovators and leaders
• What do these innovators do differently?

11. How Do You Identify and Measure Risks in the Supply Chain?
You will be sensitized to understand what risks exist, where risks arise, and how these risks affect the supply chain. Learn to detect risk at any level.

12. Supply Chain Risk Categories
Outline the seven categories of supply chain risk, along with specific examples

13. Supply Chain Risk Assessment and Quantification of Risk

• Explore current methods of assessment and quantification of risk
• Other Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

14. A Homework Case Study Exercise
Participate in a joint case study exercise to help recognize and respond to a risk management situation.

15. Case Study Discussion and Team Exercise
You will assemble in teams to discuss and report observations from the supply chain risk management case study

16. Getting Your Organization and Company Focused on Supply Chain Risk
Review of tools and methodologies to formulate a supply chain risk management framework within your organization.

17. Formulating a Supply Chain Risk Strategy Framework

• You will be provided with an outline of the Six Step Implementation Process
• Examples of management metrics will also be provided

18. Reviewing your plans and putting it all together
A final wrap-up of the workshop will summarize key learning, revisit participant expectations, and address any final questions