Supply Chain Risk, Resilience & Geopolitics is a structured track of 13 lessons that build a complete, interview-ready understanding of the topic. Work through them in order, then use the quiz and flashcards in each lesson to revise.
What this course covers
- What Supply Chain Risk Actually Looks Like - The risk categories, with a real disruption traced through each.
- Mapping Risk Across Tiers and Finding Hidden Exposure - Why the risk usually sits two tiers down, and how to find it.
- Risk Assessment: Likelihood, Impact & Detectability - Scoring and prioritising risks so mitigation spend goes to the right place.
- Resilience Levers: Buffers, Redundancy & Flexibility - Every lever available, and what each one costs to hold.
- The Cost of Resilience and How Much to Buy - Treating resilience as an investment decision with an expected loss avoided.
- Single Sourcing versus Dual Sourcing Decisions - The economics of a second source, and when it is genuinely worth it.
- Geopolitics, Tariffs & Trade Policy Shifts - How trade measures and export controls reach an operating supply chain.
- Import Dependence and Building Domestic Capability - Assessing dependence on a single country, and sequencing localisation.
- Business Continuity, Playbooks & Crisis Response - Writing a playbook that works under pressure, and rehearsing it.
- Supply Chain Visibility and Early Warning Systems - Getting signal early enough to act, rather than reporting after the fact.
- Cyber Risk and Third-Party Dependency in Supply Chains - Operational exposure through connected systems and outsourced providers.
- Using AI for Risk Sensing and Disruption Prediction - Monitoring external signals with AI, and avoiding false-alarm fatigue.
- Applied: Building a Resilience Plan for a Critical Component - One critical part de-risked, with the mitigation costed and sequenced.