GDPR will impact every area of the sourcing cycle. Being well prepared before the May 2018 deadline will turn this threat into an opportunity. Get your procurement team geared up now with Ivan Associates supply-chain focused GDPR programme.
Does your team and supplier base understand their reporting obligations and whom to report to in the event of a data breach? A well thought out response will limit reputation damage and avoid huge fines. Ivan Associates provides practical advice and support before, during, and after the unfortunate incident.
The increasing risks of malicious attacks on systems and the introduction of GDPR legislation has numerous impacts on your Sourcing Cycle. Understand where in the sourcing cycle these new risks lie and what you can do to maximise your organisation’s compliance whilst delivering cyber risk-managed contracts to your organisation without compromising value.
Our Supply Chain specialists are highly experienced supply chain practitioners and CIPS course tutors, qualified to MCIPS level and trained in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (IBITGQ accredited).
Are you asking the right questions in your supplier selection processes? Ivan Associates’ continuously updated cyber security questionnaire includes both the compliance and technical aspects of assessing suppliers’ cyber security capability.
Develop the right scoring methodology for your contract. From pre-qualification hurdle questions through to final stage tender evaluation. Ivan Associates evaluation models can support your understanding of what a high-ranked cyber-secure supplier looks like. Use weighted models to score bids or develop ranking systems to review your incumbent supply base.
Verify the validity of suppliers’ credentials – either incumbent or bidder status. Ivan Associates can find out if supplier data is available on the dark web and can support reputation checks in white hat and black hat hacker communities.
Ivan Associates can recommend, provide or support use of the appropriate software and services for deep-reaching supplier capability testing as may be required for high-risk contracts or for low cyber-security scoring preferred bidders.
Mitigate your cyber-security risks over time with Ivan Associates. We can provide a dedicated monitoring service to keep supply chain secure as the threat landscape changes.
Ivan Associates has a combination of technical and commercial skills that is unique. We can dive deep into the systems underpinning the success of the supply chain to make your procurement projects a success.
Ivan Associates can provide support in assessing the impact of all aspects of cyber security including the impact of a GDPR breach by your key supply partners.
We can provide an objective view of how your suppliers are performing against their cyber security and GDPR requirements.
Ivan Associates will support you in making the contractual changes required by the GDPR legislation.
Ivan Associates will support your procurement team to understand suppliers’ system costs to underpin fact driven, informed negotiations.
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