Increasing regulatory requirements are forcing companies to monitor their suppliers in much more depth than ever before. Further, you must have a comprehensive program in place to mitigate supply disruption. Are you equipped to identify potential disruptions, monitor suppliers and adapt quickly to minimize the impact? This panel will help you:
• Identify risks that could impact your supply chain, their probability and potential impact: natural disaster, geopolitical, export/import trade, regulatory, and more
• Measure, monitor and mitigate risks through a comprehensive risk management process
• Determine whether excess inventory, time, or resources is most important in mitigating risk, and how your suppliers optimize this buffer
• Implementing the technology and tools needed to monitor suppliers for red flags and alert you when something is amiss
• Risk sharing with your suppliers- does it work?

• Developing and maintaining strategic relationships with your key suppliers
1) driving understanding across your organization on the 'need'
2) establishing breadth and depth of those relationships to prepare for shifts in organizational structures
• Utilizing partners/key suppliers to drive innovative thought leadership - are there some best practices that can be shared when there is a need to think 'beyond the deal'?
• Driving the need in your organization to be transparent with key suppliers - for building greater alliances

• Developing and maintaining strategic relationships with your key suppliers
1) driving understanding across your organization on the 'need'
2) establishing breadth and depth of those relationships to prepare for shifts in organizational structures
• Utilizing partners/key suppliers to drive innovative thought leadership - are there some best practices that can be shared when there is a need to think 'beyond the deal'?
• Driving the need in your organization to be transparent with key suppliers - for building greater alliances