Supplier Risk Management Course

Duration: 2 hours
Live Sessions: 1
Upcoming Cohorts:
October 15th, 2026 live class
December 3rd, 2026 live class
Course Price: $199 USD
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Enhance supply chain security with strategic risk management

Supplier Risk Awareness and Mitigation is a proven method for maintaining supply reliability, protecting reputation, and avoiding disruption-related costs.

Risks can take many forms across the supply chain — severe weather, regulatory changes, unethical suppliers, cybersecurity threats, tariffs, and more.

This course focuses on practical steps to identify, monitor, and reduce supplier risk exposure while strengthening supplier risk awareness across purchasing activities

Course Curriculum

  • Risk Identification & Exposure Assessment: Learn how to identify key supplier risk areas and assess potential impacts across the supply chain
  • Monitoring & Reporting Supplier Risks: Review practical tools and techniques for tracking, reporting, and communicating supplier risks
  • Tiered Supply Chain Risk Management: Understand how tiered supply chains create additional exposure and how to reduce downstream risk
  • Supplier Risk Prevention & Crisis Response: Explore frameworks for prevention planning and navigating supplier disruptions and crisis situations
  • “Sending my team to the Supplier Risk Management course gave us a clear, shared framework to identify and prioritize supplier risk before disruptions occur. The tools are practical, easy to apply, and immediately improved how my team monitors suppliers and responds to issues.”
    Purchasing Director at a leading industrial manufacturing company
  • “For a short course, it felt very complete and rich with information.”
    Purchasing Manager at a global automotive seating company
  • “The Supplier Risk Management course gave me practical tools I could use right away, especially the risk heat maps and supplier monitoring approach. I’m now spotting issues earlier and having more informed conversations with suppliers and internal stakeholders.”
    Buyer at a global pharmaceutical company
  • “The examples shared were very accurate and impactful​.”
    Purchasing Manager at a major automotive group

Course Activities to Earn Certificate of Completion

  1. Attend the live 2-hour online training session
  2. Participate in supplier risk discussions and activities
  3. Complete practical supplier risk planning exercises
    • Expected hours to complete course – 2 CE Credits

After attending this course, attendees will be able to:  

  • Understand key supplier risk areas and their impact on supply chain reliability
  • Monitor and report supplier risks using practical tools and dashboards
  • Apply supplier risk identification techniques such as heat maps
  • Integrate supplier risk prevention measures into purchasing activities
  • Reduce exposure across tiered supply chains
  • Develop response plans for supplier crisis situations

Meet the Trainer

Mike Wynn is Vice President of Advanced Purchasing Dynamics (APD), a firm established in 2004 and committed to helping manufacturers create competitive advantage through the application of knowledge-based cost management and negotiations. 
 
Wynn leads the Purchasing Consulting practice for APD, where he ensures that our teams deliver strategic impact and significant costs savings to clients. He has been actively developing and improving APD’s training content related to AI Chatbots since late 2023, and has published 20+ articles on practical AI applications for procurement professionals.

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Questions about this course, group pricing, company-specific classes, or in-person training options?
Reach out to APD’s Director of Training, Denise Mattern, for guidance.
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