This week’s topics
Supply Chain Resilience and Enterprise Risk Mitigation
- Business continuity planning
- Supplier auditing and compliance monitoring
- Risk assessment matrices and FMEA
- Multi-tier traceability systems
What you will be able to do
- 4.2 Compare risks in supply chains that can impact on organisational corporate social responsibility and sustainability standards.
- 4.3 Discuss how the impacts of the supply chain risks can be effectively managed within a supply chain.
Activity
Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: compare risks in supply chains that can impact on organisational corporate social responsibility and sustainability standards.
Study materials
Videos
- Strengthening Supply Chain Resilience - Research Briefing · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 76 min · for registered students
- COVID-19: Business and Supply Chain Impacts with Prof. Yossi Sheffi at Crossroads 2020 · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 52 min · for registered students
- Day 1 | Session 5: Responsible Supply Chain Management · YouTube · The Open University Business School · 33 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Risks and Global Supply Chains: What We Know and What We Need to Know · PDF · NBER, article · for registered students
- Supply Chain Sustainability: A Practical Guide for Continuous Improvement, 2nd ed. (UN Global Compact & BSR, 2015) · PDF · Un, guidance; 76 pages · for registered students
- Assessing and monitoring the economic and financial standing of suppliers (UK Government Commercial Function) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 66 pages · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
