{"id":16607,"date":"2022-11-16T06:26:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T10:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/?p=16607"},"modified":"2025-06-24T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:08:58","slug":"understanding-your-supply-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/understanding-your-supply-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Your Supply Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supply risk management is an essential discipline in today&#8217;s Supply Management doctrine, focusing on abating supply risks. Likewise,\u00a0Disruption Management has become a major discipline in today\u2019s Supply Management doctrine.\u00a0 The abatement of supply risks is at the heart of such doctrines and strategies.  and  are examples of how strategic platforms can integrate risk awareness into operational efficiency. NLPA designed the Supply Risk Ecosystem Framework to conceptualize supply landscapes regarding supply risks. To conceptualize supply landscapes regarding supply risks, NLPA designed the Supply Risk Ecosystem Framework.<\/p>\n<p>The Supply Risks Ecosystem\u2122 puts supply risks and the need for supply risk management into perspective. It serves as a mechanism to foster a clearer understanding of the positioning of supply chain risk factors. It is easy to fall victim to a siloed view of supply chain risks. However, many of the forces and factors in supply chain environments function in silos\u2014often with competing goals and priorities.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve Supply risk management, supply chains can be broken up into four parts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>General Environment<\/strong>: This dimension is made up of:\n<ul>\n<li>legal forces<\/li>\n<li>demographic forces<\/li>\n<li>technological forces<\/li>\n<li>economic forces<\/li>\n<li>political forces,<\/li>\n<li>competitive forces<\/li>\n<li>ecological forces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Customer Requirements:<\/strong> The reason why an organization is in business or exists.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Organization or Business Environment:<\/strong> The Procurement Function is mandated to support its operations, manage spend, and protect it from supply risks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Supply Environment:<\/strong> The people, skills, metrics, supply chain technologies, procurement\/supply chain processes, and culture. A critical aspect of this environment is the supply chain network nodes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Figure 1, The Risk Eco System<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16608 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/11\/The-Risk-Eco-System.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/11\/The-Risk-Eco-System-200x192.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/11\/The-Risk-Eco-System-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/11\/The-Risk-Eco-System-400x384.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/11\/The-Risk-Eco-System-500x479.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/11\/The-Risk-Eco-System-600x575.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/11\/The-Risk-Eco-System.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Supply Risk Management &amp; Understanding Trends<\/p>\n<p>All four environments pose supply chain risks. Effective procurement and supply chain leadership requires a robust understanding of supply chain complexity. It is critical to understand the trends in these environments, the impacts on organizational cohesiveness and continuity, as well as how organizations are positioned to address such impacts, mitigate risks, and improve their profitability. Such insights should be leveraged as inputs to procurement buying plans, tactics, and strategies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/case-study-an-auto-manufacturers-supply-chain-goes-from-0-to-60-in-less-than-a-year\/\">Case Study: An Auto Manufacturer\u2019s Supply Chain Goes From 0 to 60 (in less than a year)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/individuals\/membership\/\">Become a member of one of the world\u2019s largest procurement associations today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find the NLPA procurement course that\u2019s right for your Team. Access <a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/procurement-course-catalog\/\">NLPA&#8217;s Course Catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"21\" data-lineheight=\"29.4px\"><strong>Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-to-benefit-and-reduce-cost-by-improving-your-risk-disruption-processes\/\">How to Benefit and Reduce Cost by Improving Your Risk &amp; Disruption Processes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/news\/purchasing-articles\/procurement-risk-management\/\">Procurement Risk Management<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/procurement-risk-management-strategy\/\">The Three Pillars of Procurement Risk Management Strategy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\">The Pain Points of a Procurement Manager<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\">Designing Yourself to Fail in Supply Chain Execution<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\">Eliminating the Pain Out of Contract Management<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supply risk management is an essential discipline in today&#8217;s Supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Understanding Your Supply Landscape - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The abatement of supply risks is at the heart of Disruption Management. 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