Course overview
"A supply chain is only as strong as its weakest link" - but what if you could strengthen every link?
In today's outsourced, globalised economy, supplier failure can devastate your business overnight. This training course will transform how you think about supply chain risk - moving from defensive damage control to strategic partnership that drives innovation, efficiency and competitive advantage.
Key topics covered include:
Turn risk into opportunity: Learn how to convert potential suppliers from liability to asset. Master the art of collaboration that transforms vendors into strategic partners who actively contribute to your risk management strategy and fuel future growth through innovation and efficiencies.
Robust supplier relationships: Discover why the strongest supply chains are built on partnership, collaboration and teamwork. You’ll develop practical tools for due diligence, strategic evaluation and adopting a collaborative approach for both problem-solving and realising opportunities, creating win-win outcomes.
Master proactive risk management: This training course equips you with frameworks to identify, assess and mitigate risks before they impact your business. You'll learn to spot the three critical risk sources: buyer-created risks, external market factors and supplier-specific vulnerabilities.
Prepare for the worst, plan for the best: From business continuity planning to exit strategies, you'll leave with comprehensive frameworks for managing everything from minor disruptions to catastrophic supplier failure. Learn when to fight, when to partner and when to walk away.
During this highly-interactive training course, the expert trainer focusses on best practice for success but also looks at how to plan and mitigate for the worst. Proactive management of supply chain risk means being prewarned and therefore pre-armed.
CPD Hours: 12
Course Content
- Day 1
- Benefits of managing Supply Chain Risk (SCR)
- Causes and types of supply chain risk
- Eliminating, avoiding and mitigating against supply chain risk
- Day 2
- Minimising criticality / pro-active management of supply chain risks
- Putting SCM in place to manage SCR
- Embedding SCR management into corporate culture
Speakers
Catherine Hurst
Catherine Hurst BSc(Hons), CIMDip, PgDL, is an independent consultant in the contract and commercial fields. She was formerly a Commercial Manager at BAe Systems, following previous contract/commercial roles with GEC and Siemens. She has extensive practical experience of bid management, contract drafting and negotiation, contract and subcontract management as well as commercial risk management, both with UK and overseas customers and suppliers, in the private and public sectors.
She is a highly experienced trainer, having a style which brings a subject to life, creating interest and stimulating the enthusiasm of delegates. She combines academic best practice with real world experience.
She lecturers Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) diploma, levels 4, 5 & 6 at Chichester college. As well as being a member of CIPS, Catherine has a degree in Management Studies, a Chartered Institute of Marketing diploma and more recently achieved a distinction in her Common Professional Examination (CPE)/Post-grad diploma in law, winning the prize for the highest achieving student in the contract law module.
Catherine has successfully provided training to organisations across a wide variety of industries, including:
Transport / utilities / energy / construction / engineering / IT / telecons: Network Rail, ScotRail, Balfour Beatty, London Underground, Westinghouse Springfields Fuels, General Dynamics, Siemens, Metronet, Thales, ABB, Hitachi, Jungheinrich, Honeywell, PALL Europe, Senior Aerospace BWT, RES (Renewable Energy Systems), AGI, Silvertown, QinetiQ, Clyde Pumps / Weir Pumps, Scottish Power, NCOC (North Caspian Operating Company), Computacentre, CISCO, BT, United Utilities
Health / pharmaceutical / education: Nuffield Health, Surrey PCT, Bristol Myers-Squibb, Newcastle University, Exeter University
Public: Forensic Science Services, Office for National Statistics, DARA (Defence Aviation Repair Agency), Metropolitan Police
Charity: Phoenix Futures, Homegroup
Retail: Co-op
