Stress Test Lab by EIPM
Test, adapt and secure your organization’s resilience
Stress Test Lab by EIPM
Test, adapt and secure your organization’s resilience
Every day, hidden risks make organisations vulnerable.
Are you ready to face them?
Discover the Stress Test Lab, a training programme designed to strengthen the resilience of your Procurement & Supply Chain strategies by uncovering hidden risks and simulating failures.
Through a rigorous and interactive methodology, this training builds your weaknesses into strategic resilience by means of constructive destabilisation.
Audience
Procurement Managers, Category Managers, Supply Chain Managers.
Prerequisites
No prior requirements.
Languages
English / French
Prerequisites
Languages
No prior requirements
English / French
Objectives
■ Challenge assumptions:
Identify and deconstruct implicit assumptions in strategic plans.
■ Monitor weak signals:
Define and track early warning signs that reveal vulnerabilities in strategy.
■ Simulate crises:
Anticipate cascading failures through structured scenario-building techniques.
■ Respond effectively:
Develop adaptive triggers and contingency plans.
■ Sharpen strategic thinking:
Take out strategic reasoning through peer critique and exchange.
Programme
Discovery
■ Introduction to the strategic resilience mindset:
Adopt a new way of thinking about strategy, consider risks, unforeseen events, and weak signals. It is about adopting a proactive posture, capable of anticipating disruptions and adapting quickly to changes.
■ Explore the EIPM lab’s tools and frameworks:
Become familiar with practical methods, discover analytical frameworks and concrete tools for assessing the robustness of a strategy. The objective is to test the strategy and identify its vulnerabilities.
■ Adopt critical thinking:
Develop the ability to assess situations, ideas rationally and objectively.
Application
■ Submit a strategy to a stress test: Apply the lab’s tools and frameworks to a concrete strategy of your choice.
■ Identifiy breaches : Uncover hidden assumptions and weak signals that could undermine your strategy.
■ Simulate failures : Anticipate cascading effects and design agile responses.
■ Share results with peers: Benefit from constructive exchanges for a complete assessment.
Use cases
of a procurement strategy
■ Prior to major review or as part of a project strategy development.
■ To test preparedness for external turmoil such as geopolitical crises, ESG enforcement, AI disruptions.
Highlights
■ Hybrid methodology: Combines a structured protocol supported by generative AI with human-centred strategic reflection for more effective analysis.
■ Learning through failure: By simulating crises, participants identify vulnerabilities in their strategies before they occur in reality.
■ Adaptability & critical thinking: Designed to accelerate adaptability and enhance critical thinking to better navigate uncertain environments.
■ Highly participative and interactive format.
Our experts
M. SHANBHAG Manish
Expert in procurement & international sourcing
M. LEGENVRE Hervé
Research & Training
Expert
M. ANGER Pierre
Expert in procurement, negotiation and organizational transformation
Testimonial
“I came with a confident strategy. I left with a resilient one.”
Louis C.–Category Manager in a large corporation.
EIPM
European Institute of Purchasing Management
Since 1991, EIPM has established itself as the international leader in Procurement & Supply chain training.
EIPM’s mission is to elevate Procurement & Supply Chain as strategic functions and to guide professionals in the field towards reaching their full potential.