Supply Chain Risk & Resilience
Every supply chain is a set of promises made by other people — resilience is knowing which promises break first, and what you do that hour.
Format
Classroom · Live Virtual
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The last decade taught every organisation that supply chains fail — few have turned the lesson into method. This programme does. It maps the chain beyond tier one to where the real fragility hides; measures exposure honestly — concentration, geography, financial health, logistics chokepoints; and hardens deliberately: dual sourcing, inventory strategy, contractual protections and the trade-off each costs. It closes with response: the playbook, the war-room and the supplier failure managed as an operation rather than a surprise.
What you will do
Who attends
Supply chain and procurement leaders; risk managers with third-party or supply chain remits; operations and continuity managers in supply-dependent organisations.
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.Seeing the chain
- Multi-tier mapping: methods that work with imperfect data
- Concentration and chokepoints: suppliers, geographies, logistics, materials
- Supplier financial health: reading distress before the letter arrives
II.Hardening it
- Dual sourcing, near-shoring, inventory: the resilience menu, priced
- Contractual protections that hold under stress
- Early-warning indicators worth watching — and the noise to ignore
III.When it breaks
- The first 48 hours: triage, allocation, communication
- The supplier failure playbook: step-in, substitution, exit
- After-action: turning the incident into structure
Frequently asked
Who are the operations, procurement and project programmes designed for?
They are built for practitioners who carry delivery accountability — procurement and supply chain professionals, project and programme managers, PMO teams and operations leaders. Cohorts are deliberately cross-industry: the disciplines of sourcing, tendering, project control and portfolio governance are the same craft whether the organisation is a bank, a utility or a manufacturer.
Are these certification-preparation courses?
No. BIZENIUS programmes are practice-led rather than exam-led: casework, live negotiations and control-cycle exercises built from real project and procurement situations. Participants leave with methods and templates they apply the following week, and a certificate of completion from BIZENIUS — we do not sell third-party exam preparation.
How do I secure a seat on an operations or projects programme?
Apply through the course page or request the brochure — a course advisor replies within one business day with dates, formats and fees. Programmes run in English and French, classroom and live virtual, and every course can be delivered in-house for a single team or transformation programme.
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