Applying Supply Chain Resilience to Navigate Disruptions: From Vulnerability Analysis to Action Planning
Modern supply chains face increasing disruptions arising from geopolitical tensions, regulatory changes, supplier concentration, logistics constraints, climate events, and operational disruptions. Organizations can no longer rely solely on efficiency-focused supply chain strategies; they must build resilience capabilities that enable them to anticipate, absorb, adapt, recover, and improve from disruptions.
Applied Supply Chain Resilience: Applied Vulnerability Assessment, Scenario Testing and Action Planning is a highly practical two-day workshop that equips managers and practitioners with the tools, frameworks, and decision-making skills needed to identify vulnerabilities, evaluate disruption scenarios, assess mitigation trade-offs, and develop actionable resilience plans.
Using an integrated multi-tier supply chain case, participants progress through a structured learning journey that mirrors real-world executive decision-making. They will map hidden dependencies, conduct vulnerability assessments, configure disruption scenarios, stress-test response options, evaluate cost-service-feasibility trade-offs, and construct a prioritized resilience intervention portfolio. The course culminates in the development and defense of a 90-Day Resilience Action Blueprint, enabling participants to translate analysis into implementation-ready business decisions.
Rather than focusing solely on theory, the workshop emphasizes evidence-based decision-making, structured scenario analysis, governance, and action planning to help organizations strengthen operational continuity and long-term resilience.
Participants leave with a complete Applied Supply Chain Resilience Toolkit and a 90-Day Resilience Action Blueprint that can be adapted and applied within their own organizations.
By the end of this programme, participants will be able to:
- Assess Supply Chain Vulnerabilities and Resilience Risks
- Identify critical threats, dependencies, bottlenecks, and vulnerabilities across multi-tier supply chain networks.
- Develop and Evaluate Disruption Scenarios
- Construct realistic disruption scenarios and assess their potential impact on supply, operations, service, and business performance.
- Analyse Trade-offs and Stress-Test Response Options
- Compare alternative sourcing, inventory, logistics, and capacity strategies while evaluating cost, service, recovery, and feasibility implications.
- Design Resilience Strategies and Intervention Portfolios
- Prioritize and combine immediate response, resilience-building, and recovery actions to strengthen supply chain resilience.
- Establish Governance, Early Warning and Response Mechanisms
- Define monitoring indicators, decision triggers, ownership, escalation pathways, and response protocols to support resilient operations.
- Develop and Defend an Actionable Resilience Roadmap
- Create a practical 90-day Resilience Action Blueprint and justify recommendations using evidence, trade-off analysis, and business rationale.
Day 1: Risk Framing, Vulnerability Diagnosis and Scenario Design
- The New Supply Chain Risk Paradigm
- Taxonomy of Threats and Early Signals
- Vulnerability Identification and Mapping
- Scenario Definition and Baseline Construction
Day 2: Stress Testing, Intervention Selection and Mobilization
- Stress-Testing the Network
- Quantifying Trade-offs and Robustness
- Selecting a Resilience Intervention Portfolio
- Governance, Early Warning and Decision Triggers
- Mobilization and Executive Defence
Duration
2 Days (14 Training Hours)
Delivery Mode
Physical, Facilitated Workshop
Our Value Proposition
- Diagnose and Prioritize Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
Work through an integrated supply chain case to identify vulnerabilities, uncover hidden dependencies, assess disruption risks, and evaluate their business impact.
- Stress-Test Decisions and Evaluate Trade-offs
Apply practical frameworks and scenario analysis to compare response options and balance resilience, cost, service, recovery, and implementation feasibility.
- Build and Defend Actionable Resilience Plans
Develop governance mechanisms, intervention portfolios, and a 90-day Resilience Action Blueprint that can be justified and implemented with executive confidence.
Learning Repositories
Participants will progressively produce six practical outputs:
- Risk Landscape and Decision Statement
- Vulnerability Heatmap
- Disruption Scenario and Assumption Register
- Scenario Scorecard
- Mitigation Portfolio
- 90-Day Resilience Action Blueprint
This programme is designed for:
- Supply Chain and Operations Managers
- Procurement and Supplier Management Leaders
- Demand, Supply and Inventory Planners
- Logistics and Distribution Managers
- Risk Management and Business Continuity Professionals
- Business Transformation and Strategy Teams
- Cross-functional leaders involved in resilience initiatives
1. All notice of transfer/withdrawal / deferment must be given in writing and submitted at least 2 weeks prior to course commencement.
2. An administrative fee of $60 (GST inclusive) will be imposed if notice is received less than 2 weeks.
3. If notice of withdrawal is received:
– At least 1 week before commencement of the course, a 20% of the full course fee will be charged. For government-funded course, a 20% of full course fee before funding will be charged.
– Less than 1 week before commencement of the course, a 30% of the full course fee will be charged. For government-funded course, a 30% of full course fee before funding will be charged.
– No show on the scheduled date, a full course fee will be levied. For government-funded course, a full course fee before funding will be charged.
4. For all government-funded programmes (WSQ & Non-WSQ), funding is only applicable to:
– Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents.
– Participants who have achieved at least 75% attendance and passed all required assessments.
– Full course fee will be charged to participants who fail to meet the above-mentioned criteria.
5. Certificates or Statement of Attainment or Certificate of Attendance will only be issued to participants who have achieved 75% attendance and undergo assessment (if applicable).
6.When a course is cancelled, fails to commence or fails to complete under unforeseen circumstances, participant is allowed to defer the intake at no cost or withdraw from the course; under such situation, a full refund of the advance payment will be given.
7. Notice of change in participant’s name must be given in writing, 1no less than 5 days prior to course commencement.
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