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Risk and Resilience in Procurement in Gothenburg
When: May 6th 2025
Start-Finish: 09:30-15:00
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.
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 risks.
- Exploring dependencies and vulnerabilities in global supply chains and strategies to mitigate disruptions.
- Discussion: How can companies create risk management frameworks that balance costs with preparedness while addressing risks stemming from market volatility and shifting global policies?
- 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 and ensure continuity?
- Regulatory Compliance and Risk Mitigation
- Staying ahead of evolving regulatory requirements and ensuring supplier compliance.
- Aligning compliance frameworks with procurement goals without overburdening teams.
- Addressing sustainability-linked regulations and their impact on procurement strategies.
- Discussion: How can companies ensure compliance without compromising procurement efficiency or agility?
- 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.
- Balancing the cost of transparency with the value it brings in identifying and mitigating risks.
- Discussion: What approaches work best to 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.
- Balancing shared innovation costs with mutual value creation.
- Discussion: How can procurement teams foster supplier relationships that go beyond transactional value to drive resilience and innovation?
- Resilience Costs: Navigating Budget and Priorities
- Exploring how much resilience costs and who should bear those costs across the supply chain.
- Practical insights into how companies balance short-term budget constraints with long-term resilience goals.
- Discussion:
- What does your earmarked risk and resilience budget look like?
- How do you prioritize resilience investments without overwhelming the organization?
- What role does collaboration with suppliers play in sharing resilience costs?
Why These Topics Are Relevant:
Gothenburg is a hub for industries that are both highly innovative and deeply dependent on supply chain resilience. The workshop’s focus on actionable strategies ensures participants can:
Share insights on common challenges, such as multi-tier supply chain visibility, regulatory compliance, and managing the cost of resilience.
By addressing these topics in a collaborative setting, the workshop empowers procurement leaders in Gothenburg to elevate their strategies and build networks that support long-term growth and stability.
Learn from industries that have successfully implemented risk mitigation and resilience frameworks.
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.