-Supply Chain Risk Assessment (Identifying Concentration Risks)

-Developing Multi-node Sourcing Strategies (Mitigating Risks)

-Building Supply Chain Resilience & Dealing with Supply Chain Disruptions

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the main categories of supply chain risk affecting global and regional trade (geopolitical, trade policy, operational, compliance, and ESG‑related risks).
2. Identify concentration risks within their own supply chains, including over‑reliance on single countries, suppliers, logistics routes, or trade regimes.
3. Assess how trade policy shifts, tariffs, sanctions, and export controls can disrupt sourcing and distribution models.
4. Evaluate diversification options across sourcing locations, suppliers, and markets, particularly within ASEAN and Asia.
5. Apply a structured framework to develop a realistic supply chain diversification strategy aligned with cost, compliance, and resilience objectives.

Learning Outcomes

1. Map their supply chain risk exposure using a simple risk‑impact framework.

2. Distinguish between avoidable risks (design‑related) and external shocks (geopolitics, pandemics, trade wars).

3. Explain how tariffs, FTAs, sanctions, and export controls directly affect sourcing decisions.

4. Identify at least three diversification levers applicable to their organisation (supplier, geography, routing, trade agreement usage).

5. Formulate initial diversification actions that balance resilience, cost, and regulatory compliance.

Trainer Profile

Boon Ho is the Director, Trade Advisory at RSM Singapore. His professional experience includes trade negotiations, advising companies on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) benefits and international trade optimisation.
Boon Ho is a Tariffs and Rules of Origin trade specialist. He directly participated in negotiating 8 of Singapore’s FTAs as well as the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Harmonization Work Programme on non-preferential Rules of Origin. Besides being directly involved in trade negotiations, he also advised Singapore trade negotiators on key industry requests and trade policy issues related to tariffs and rules of origin.
Boon Ho also has past experience advising and developing SME internationalisation capabilities in the food and beverage manufacturing, print and publishing industries. He also attracted global trading companies and helped promote exports centred on Singapore’s global trade hub status.
Prior to joining the Firm, he spent nearly 27 years with the Singapore Government in the defence field and the bulk of his public sector career in the enterprise and trade development agency, where he spent 5 years heading the Tokyo and Los Angeles Offices.

Logistics Executive/Manager; Export Executive/Manager; Regional Business Development Executive/Manager; Finance Executive/Manager; Mid-Career Participant Looking to Re-skill as a Trade Planner.