Most procurement organisations have reasonable visibility of their tier-one suppliers. Very few know much about what sits behind them. Tier-two and tier-three concentration has become one of the biggest and least managed sources of supply failure, and when it does surface, it’s usually too late to do anything about it.
The problem isn’t awareness. Most procurement leaders already know the risk is there. The problem is building visibility that works, without a multi-year technology programme and without a supplier base that’s willing to hand over data.
Join procurement leaders from across the industry on August 27 at 11:00 AM ET / 4:00 PM BST as they share what they’re doing to map hidden concentration, set limits that hold, and spot trouble earlier.
We’ll cover:
- Mapping tier-two and tier-three exposure when full supplier transparency isn’t on the table
- Setting concentration thresholds that mean something in contracts, not just on paper
- The chokepoints that keep showing up across categories: shared sub-suppliers, single-origin dependencies, logistics nodes
- Getting suppliers to share upstream data without turning the relationship adversarial
- What to do when a critical sub-supplier refuses visibility
Register here today.
