IPSC Professional Development & CPD · Module 04
Supply Chain Risk & Critical Minerals
Identify, evaluate, and communicate supply-chain and critical minerals risk with greater precision across board, investment, policy, and institutional settings.
This module combines a focused 1-hour live session with 2.5 hours of structured asynchronous work so participants can detect strategic exposure, assess concentration and chokepoint risk, evaluate second-order vulnerabilities, and turn complex supply-chain conditions into decision-ready risk judgement.
Module overview
A practical module for professionals who need a clearer framework for risk identification, risk evaluation, and resilience judgement in critical minerals and strategic supply chains.
1-hour live session + 2.5 hours asynchronous
Built for boards, investment teams, legal advisers, risk professionals, policy practitioners, and institutions that require disciplined methods for identifying and evaluating strategic supply exposure.
Risk identification in strategic minerals
The module examines how supply concentration, processing dominance, export controls, logistics fragility, and geopolitical leverage create identifiable commercial and strategic risk points.
Risk evaluation for boards and investors
Participants evaluate how mineral dependency, policy shocks, infrastructure constraints, and market concentration affect diligence, capital allocation, resilience planning, and governance oversight.
Decision-ready risk judgement
Participants leave with a more usable method for identifying vulnerabilities, evaluating severity and consequence, and briefing decision-makers on strategic supply-chain risk.
Learning outcomes
Participants build a practical framework for identifying, evaluating, and communicating critical minerals and supply-chain risk in applied professional settings.
Identify concentration and chokepoint risk
Recognise where supply chains are excessively concentrated and where extraction, processing, refining, transport, or downstream dependence create strategic vulnerability.
Evaluate exposure and consequence
Assess how concentration risk, offtake dependency, infrastructure weakness, policy disruption, and geopolitical fragmentation affect asset quality, continuity, valuation, and governance exposure.
Interpret de-risking and policy signals
Evaluate how industrial policy, allied coordination, export restrictions, strategic reserves, and investment screening alter risk profiles, incentives, and long-term positioning.
Communicate risk to decision-makers
Translate supply-chain complexity into concise, decision-ready advice for boards, investors, executives, and policy audiences making capital, resilience, and strategy decisions.
Session structure
The module blends a focused live session with guided asynchronous work, moving from strategic context to applied risk identification and evaluation with clear emphasis on professional judgement and decision-use.
1-hour expert-led briefing
A live session introducing the strategic minerals landscape, major risk drivers, and the core analytical frame used to identify and evaluate supply-chain exposure.
Chokepoint and exposure mapping
Guided material on extraction, processing, transport, refining, and downstream dependency to identify concentrated actors, disruption points, and hidden second-order exposure.
Risk evaluation and decision implications
Applied work on how identified risks affect diligence, resilience planning, capital allocation, long-term supply agreements, and governance judgement for boards and investment committees.
Advisory and briefing application
A final exercise in evaluating a critical minerals scenario and drafting a short advisory note that sets out risk, consequence, options, and decision implications.
Enrolment
Build sharper risk identification and evaluation capability.
Enrol online to join the module, or contact IPSC to discuss institutional participation, invoicing, or group bookings for teams working on strategic risk, resilience, and supply-chain exposure.