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Risk and Resilience in Procurement in Gothenburg
When: May 6th 2025
Where: Gothenburg City Centre
Who: Procurement professionals, maximum 1 per company and registration may be subject to evaluation (given role, industry and possible registrations from same company)
Cost: No cost but registration is binding, your presence can be substituted by a colleague
Topic overview: The three workshop overviews are suggestions, final content to be developed together with sponsors and speakers
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Risk and Resilience in Procurement in Gothenburg
Action-Oriented Focus:
- Acting on Risk Assessments: Instead of waiting for comprehensive mapping of all supply chain risks, participants will explore how to mitigate the most pressing risks and refine strategies as they go.
- Resilience Through Proactive Steps: This session will emphasize taking immediate actions to build resilience, such as diversifying suppliers or implementing quick-response plans, even when full risk profiles are incomplete.
- From Awareness to Action in Multi-Tier Supply Chains: Leverage limited visibility in deeper tiers to create actionable risk mitigation plans.
Why It’s Relevant:
- Risk management often gets bogged down in extensive assessments and delayed responses. This workshop will teach participants how to act decisively with the information at hand, balancing urgency with long-term planning.
- Crisis response and resilience-building require agility—this workshop ensures attendees leave with actionable steps, not just theoretical frameworks.
Key Topics and Discussion Points
- Supply Chain Risk Management
- Identifying key risks in the supply chain, including geopolitical, environmental, and financial factors.
- Best practices for assessing second- and third-tier suppliers to uncover hidden vulnerabilities.
- Discussion: How can companies create risk management frameworks that balance costs with preparedness?
- Creating Procurement Team Agility
- Strategies for creating agile procurement processes that enable quick adaptation to market and operational disruptions.
- Examples of fostering a responsive culture within procurement teams, emphasizing flexibility, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Discussion: What organizational changes can foster agility and flexibility in procurement operations to better manage uncertainties?
- Regulatory Compliance and Risk Mitigation
- Staying ahead of evolving regulatory requirements and ensuring supplier compliance.
- Aligning compliance frameworks with procurement goals without overburdening teams.
- Discussion: How can companies manage regulatory risks without slowing down procurement processes?
- Multi-Tier Supply Chain Challenges
- Gaining visibility into second- and third-tier suppliers to address hidden vulnerabilities.
- Tools and technologies that enhance supply chain transparency.
- Discussion: How can companies incentivize transparency and collaboration across all tiers of the supply chain?
- Supplier Collaboration for Innovation
- Partnering with suppliers to co-develop innovative solutions and improve processes.
- Encouraging joint risk-sharing agreements to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities.
- Discussion: How can procurement teams foster supplier relationships that go beyond transactional value?
Why These Topics Are Relevant:
Gothenburg’s industries rely on global supply chains, which makes managing risks and building resilience a top priority. Procurement teams must navigate regulatory complexities, prepare for sudden disruptions and develop strategies to ensure continuity in operations. This workshop focuses on practical approaches to these pressing challenges.
Value for Participants:
This workshop provides tools and frameworks to proactively manage risks, build resilience, navigate regulatory challenges, and develop robust crisis response plans – all of which are critical for organizations in Gothenburg’s interconnected and high-stakes industries.