Supply Chain Risk Management for Procurement Managers Training Course

Course overview

Procurement managers are expected to protect continuity of supply while meeting cost, quality, ESG and contractual commitments. That responsibility becomes difficult when critical suppliers depend on single-source materials, operate across volatile regions, provide incomplete data, or sit several tiers away from direct visibility. Reactive expediting after a disruption is expensive and often fails to address the underlying exposure. This course equips procurement professionals to identify, quantify and prioritise supply chain risks before they become missed production plans, service failures, contractual disputes or emergency-buying costs.

Participants learn a procurement-led risk management process covering supplier segmentation, supply market intelligence, risk registers, probability-impact scoring, total exposure assessment and mitigation planning. They examine financial, operational, geopolitical, cyber, logistics, quality, capacity, ethical-sourcing and dependency risks using practical tools such as Kraljic-style portfolio analysis, heat maps, supplier risk scorecards and contingency playbooks. The course also addresses how to build risk requirements into sourcing events, contracts, supplier reviews and performance dashboards.

Teaching combines instructor-led models with worked procurement cases, spreadsheet-based analysis and group decision workshops. Participants analyse a realistic category portfolio, assess critical suppliers, test disruption scenarios and present risk-treatment recommendations to a mock procurement leadership team. Each participant leaves with a completed procurement supply chain risk management pack: a category risk register, supplier scorecard, mitigation plan, escalation matrix and 90-day implementation roadmap for use in their own organisation.

Course objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Build a category-level supply chain risk register using defined risk statements, owners, controls and review dates
• Segment suppliers and categories with a Kraljic-style risk and value matrix
• Score supplier exposure using probability-impact criteria, inherent risk ratings and residual risk ratings
• Conduct supplier financial, capacity, geographic and dependency risk assessments from available evidence
• Design dual-sourcing, inventory, contractual and supplier-development mitigation strategies for critical risks
• Embed risk evaluation criteria into RFQs, supplier due diligence questionnaires and award recommendations
• Create supplier risk scorecards and escalation thresholds for quarterly business reviews
• Produce a 90-day procurement risk treatment roadmap with accountable actions and measurable milestones

Benefits of attending

Target competencies

Who should attend

• Procurement Managers — who own category strategy and must maintain supply continuity while controlling commercial exposure
• Category Managers — who make sourcing and supplier allocation decisions for critical spend areas
• Strategic Sourcing Managers — who need to evaluate risk alongside cost, quality and delivery during supplier selection
• Supplier Relationship Managers — who require structured methods for monitoring and improving supplier resilience
• Purchasing Managers — who manage operational supply risks, shortages and supplier performance issues
• Supply Chain Managers — who need procurement-led risk intelligence to support continuity and contingency planning

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have practical experience of purchasing, sourcing, supplier management or category management, and understand basic procurement concepts such as RFQs, purchase orders, supplier performance measures, contracts and spend categories. Familiarity with Excel tables, filters and simple formulas is expected because risk registers and scorecards are developed during the course. Experience with formal enterprise risk management, financial analysis or specialist supply chain software is not required. Participants do not need prior knowledge of ISO 31000 or ISO 28000; the relevant principles are introduced and applied in procurement scenarios.

Training methodology

The course is delivered through instructor-led briefings, facilitated discussion and practical procurement workshops. Participants work with a simulated multi-tier supply network, supplier data extracts and disruption scenarios to build risk registers, score suppliers and select proportionate controls. Small groups compare sourcing options under cost, lead-time and continuity constraints, then defend their recommendations in a procurement governance review. The final session is an application-planning workshop in which participants adapt the course templates to a live category or supplier challenge from their own work.

Course outline

Day 1: Procurement Risk Foundations and Exposure Mapping

• Procurement accountability for supply continuity and commercial risk
• Risk taxonomy for supplier, market, logistics, quality and geopolitical exposure
• ISO 31000 risk management principles applied to procurement decisions
• Inherent risk, residual risk and control effectiveness definitions
• Risk appetite, tolerance thresholds and escalation triggers
• Category segmentation using spend criticality and supply complexity
• Kraljic-style portfolio analysis for sourcing vulnerability

Workshop: Participants map a sample category portfolio and produce a first-pass exposure map identifying high-risk categories and required governance levels.

Day 2: Supplier Due Diligence and Risk Assessment

• Supplier risk indicators across financial, operational, compliance and sustainability dimensions
• Financial health review using liquidity, leverage and cash-flow warning signals
• Capacity, lead-time and quality capability assessment methods
• Country, site and transport corridor risk analysis
• Single-source, sole-source and sub-tier dependency mapping
• Supplier due diligence questionnaires and evidence validation
• Probability-impact scoring and risk heat-map calibration

Workshop: Participants assess three suppliers from a data pack and produce a scored supplier risk profile with documented evidence and assumptions.

Day 3: Mitigation Design and Resilient Sourcing Decisions

• Risk treatment choices: avoid, reduce, transfer, accept and monitor
• Dual sourcing and supplier allocation strategy design
• Safety stock, buffer capacity and lead-time mitigation trade-offs
• Supplier development plans for capability and continuity gaps
• Contractual continuity clauses, notification duties and recovery obligations
• Risk-based RFQ requirements and weighted supplier evaluation criteria
• Total cost of risk analysis for sourcing recommendations

Workshop: Teams redesign a sourcing strategy for a critical component and produce a mitigation plan comparing cost, resilience and implementation feasibility.

Day 4: Monitoring, Governance and Disruption Response

• Supplier risk scorecard design and leading risk indicators
• Quarterly business review agendas for resilience performance
• Risk register ownership, review cadence and action tracking
• Escalation matrices for supplier incidents and material shortages
• Business continuity plans and supplier recovery validation
• Scenario planning for port disruption, cyber incidents and supplier insolvency
• Power BI dashboard requirements for procurement risk reporting

Workshop: Participants run a disruption-response simulation and produce an escalation decision log, stakeholder communication plan and supplier recovery actions.

Day 5: Implementing a Procurement Risk Management System

• Operating model roles across procurement, supply chain, quality, finance and legal
• Risk data sources, data quality controls and supplier master-data requirements
• Integrating risk gates into sourcing, contracting and supplier onboarding
• Procurement risk KPIs, KRIs and management reporting packs
• Audit trails for risk decisions, exceptions and control verification
• 90-day implementation planning and stakeholder engagement
• Continuous improvement using post-incident reviews and lessons learned

Workshop: Participants complete and present a procurement supply chain risk management pack containing a risk register, scorecard, mitigation plan, escalation matrix and 90-day roadmap.

Tools & standards covered

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, ISO 31000, ISO 28000

A typical training day

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in the East Africa Time zone, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

How you can take this course

Certification

Participants who complete the full five days receive the Skillset Development Certificate of Completion, stating the course title, course code, dates and delivery format — suitable for professional-development records and employer reimbursement.

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