As supply chains continue to push expansion to new regions with major location risks, including emerging providers, some organizations are successfully adopting approaches to this critical intersection. It needs to be examined how supplier risks (and opportunities) may be better explained through environmental or location factors and how customers can actively monitor, predict and manage such risks.

Join Alan Hanson, Senior Vice President at Neo Group and Sonal Sinha, Associate Vice President of Industry Solutions at MetricStream as they look at how effective organizations are increasingly recognizing the need to assess and address the combination of Location and Supplier specific risks in their Global Services Supply networks.

• Why location factors are gaining importance by the day
• What risks are associated with location and environment
• How successful organizations mitigate and manage these risks