Supply Chain Risk - What Boards & GCs Need to Know

Introduction

Supply chain risk has moved from an operational procurement issue to a board-level governance and resilience priority. Businesses face growing scrutiny over supply chain disruption, supplier failure, sanctions exposure, forced labour, modern slavery, deforestation, climate-related disruption, geopolitical instability and weak third-party controls.

This virtual classroom seminar examines what senior leaders need to know about executive oversight of supply chain risk. It is not a technical procurement course. Instead, it focuses on why boards, GCs and risk committees need visibility of supply chain exposure and how boards can oversee supply chain resilience, understand legal and reputational exposure and challenge whether management has adequate systems to identify risks across complex value chains. It will also explain the link between supply chain risk, business continuity, market access, investor confidence and stakeholder trust.

The session will briefly reference key developments including the EU Forced Labour Regulation, the EU Deforestation Regulation, CSDDD, CSRD and UK modern slavery transparency expectations. It will also explore how supply chain due diligence supports business continuity, market access, investor confidence and defensible decision-making.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• Understand why supply chain risk is now a board-level governance, resilience and liability issue, not simply an operational or procurement concern
• Identify the key legal, commercial and reputational supply chain risks that directors and senior leaders should be overseeing, including modern slavery, forced labour, sanctions, human rights, environmental risk and supplier disruption
• Assess how supply chain risks connect to directors’ duties, long-term value creation, stakeholder expectations, reporting obligations and potential liability exposure
• Consider what effective board oversight looks like in practice, including risk thresholds, escalation mechanisms, internal reporting structures, board committee responsibilities and evidence of decision-making
• Apply practical board-level questions to test whether management has adequate supply chain due diligence, monitoring, mitigation and remediation processes in place

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.