Supply Chain Risk Management

Supply Chain Risk Management is a five-day supply chain risk and resilience course delivered by Mars Training Centre across its international network — in London, Dubai, Munich, Bangkok, and Johannesburg — designed for supply chain, procurement, and risk leaders responsible for the continuity, resilience, and risk profile of complex supply chains.

The last decade has rewritten supply chain risk. Pandemic, war, geopolitical realignment, sanctions, cyber attacks, and climate events have moved from tail-risk scenarios to recurring features of the operating environment. The boards that supply chain leaders report to expect resilience strategies, not just contingency plans, and expect their supply chain leaders to have answered the question of where the next disruption could come from and what has been done about it.

Across five focused days, you will work through the discipline of supply chain risk management — from risk identification and mapping through to mitigation, monitoring, and crisis response. The week balances structured frameworks with regional case studies of real supply chain shocks and is delivered by senior practitioners who have led supply chains through major disruption. You leave with a personal action plan and a risk programme calibrated to your supply chain footprint.

What You Will Learn

By the end of this programme, you will be able to:

• Map your supply chain end-to-end and identify single points of failure.
• Apply structured risk identification across the principal risk categories.
• Assess risks using likelihood, impact, and velocity dimensions.
• Build supply chain risk registers and heat maps.
• Design mitigation strategies appropriate to each risk type.
• Apply scenario planning and stress testing to the supply chain.
• Build supply chain resilience into network and sourcing design.
• Operate continuous monitoring and early-warning systems.
• Lead supply chain crisis response and recovery.
• Communicate supply chain risk to the board and audit committee.

How You Will Benefit

You will leave with a structured supply chain risk methodology, a working risk programme calibrated to your footprint, and a Mars Certificate of Completion.

Your organisation will gain a leader who can articulate supply chain risk at the executive table, drive measurable improvement in resilience, and respond decisively when disruption arrives.

Who This Programme Is For

This programme is designed for supply chain, procurement, and risk professionals, including:

• Chief Supply Chain Officers and Supply Chain Directors
• Chief Procurement Officers and Procurement Directors
• Heads of Supply Chain Risk and Resilience
• Heads of Business Continuity and Crisis Management
• Heads of Enterprise Risk with supply chain remit
• Operations Directors and Heads of Manufacturing
• Senior commercial leaders in capital-intensive industries
• Senior public-sector supply chain leads

The seniority floor is senior manager and above.