Our final webinar of 2018, and my final webinar as MD of Spend Matters UK/Europe, is on Thursday December 13th at 2pm (UK time). It’s titled “Understand the Risk Big Picture”.
It is being run in conjunction with riskmethods – the firm provides a cloud-based supply chain risk management platform / solution, and founder Heiko Schwarz will be participating in the webinar with me. We’ll refer to the five short briefing papers we published last year on different types of risk – and throw in the sixth, which will be out soon, and looks at cyber-risk; a very hot topic! The previous five covered issues such as reputational risk, natural disasters and supplier financial risks.
This session is really an overview of supply chain risk management, and we’ll look forward somewhat as well to where the big issues might lie for 2019. OK, it is by definition had to work out where the “unknown unknowns” might lie, but it is not so difficult to do a bit of forward thinking and highlight where some attention might be needed.
“Brexit” is on everyone’s mind of course, but the long-term effects of the current tension between Ukraine and Russia, or the trade war…
