BCI Supply Chain Resilience Course

Course Duration
2 days, live online

(Please contact us if you prefer face-to-face training.)

Course Accreditation

All students will receive an official certificate of attendance from the Business Continuity Institute (BCI). Completion of this course entitles delegates to 16 CPE/CPD credits.

Who should be interested in this course?

Business continuity and resilience professionals who are responsible for their organisation’s BCM programme with a need to understand the importance of supply chain resilience and how to incorporate this into everyday practices, both for their own business and the customers that they serve. It is beneficial to have a basic understanding of business continuity in a resilience, risk, HSE or security related role.

Course Objectives

The objectives of this training course are to provide students with the capability to:

Understand supply chains and their component parts
Develop robust and value for money supply chain resilience solutions
Understand how to engage with staff responsible for awarding more resilient contracts
Create Top Management reports that support the concepts of building supply chain resilience

Course Methodology

The learning methodology uses a mixture of presentations, discussion, case studies, video content and interactive exercises to transform participant knowledge into hands-on practice in a safe environment.

Course Description

This course is about understanding supply chains, how they are managed and how to ensure that resilience measures are included within them, and therefore the continuity of the business. It will enable delegates to engage with those responsible for procurement, contracts, legal and the supply chain to ensure that business continuity requirements and resilience are embedded into the organisation’s supply chain processes.

In the current climate of pandemic lockdowns, social distancing, financial austerity, volatile markets and globalisation, supply chains are under severe and complex global pressure. Suppliers may operate in areas of the world that suffer from considerable threats from severe weather systems, corruption, crime and many other logistical problems.

On this course you will learn how to approach and educate procurement and contract teams and their stakeholders in the business benefits of Supply Chain Resilience, cost benefit analysis and return on investment. Students will learn the terminology used by procurement professionals and contracts departments, and how to work with them so that contracts are awarded to the most resilient suppliers.

This course is based on the BCI Good Practice Guidelines and reflects the current global thinking from ISO 22301 and ISO /TS 22317 and ISO /TS 22318.