Supply chain security

Supply chain security refers to efforts to enhance the security of the supply chain: the transport and logistics system for the world's cargo. It combines traditional practices of supply chain management with the security requirements of the system, which are driven by threats such as terrorism, piracy, and theft. Some analysts have raised concerns about supply chain security overreach. Typical supply chain security activities include:

• Credentialing of participants in the supply chain.
• Screening and validating of the contents of cargo being shipped.
• Advance notification of the contents to the destination country.
• Ensuring the security of cargo while in-transit via the use of locks and tamper-proof seals.
• Inspecting cargo on entry.

Key initiatives

There are a number of supply chain security initiatives in the United States and around the world today. These include:

• The Customs Trade Partnership against Terrorism (C-TPAT), a voluntary compliance program for companies to improve the security of their corporate supply chains.
• The World Customs Organization (WCO) adopted the Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade in 2005, which consists of supply chain security standards for Customs administrations including Authorized Economic Operator(AEO) programs.
• The Container Security Initiative(CSI), a program led by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security focused on screening containers at foreign ports.
• The World Customs Organization .
• Efforts for countries around the world to implement and enforce the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code), an agreement of 148 countries that are members of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
• Pilot initiatives by companies in the private sector to track and monitor the integrity of cargo containers moving around the world using technologies such as RFID and GPS.
• The International Organization for Standardization have released a series of Standards for the establishment and management of supply chain security. ISO/PAS 28000 - Specification for security management systems for the supply chain, offers public and private enterprise an international high-level management standard that enables organisations to utilise a globally consistent management approach to applying supply chain security initiatives.

See also

• Authorized Economic Operator
• Container Security Initiative
• Counterfeit consumer goods
• Customs Trade Partnership against Terrorism
• Document automation in supply chain management & logistics
• Homeland Security
• Infrastructure security
• ISO 28000
• ISO 31000
• Security Risk
• Supply Chain Management
• Track and trace
• Trade facilitation

External links

• IMO FAQ on the ISPS Code
• MIT Project on Supply Chain Response to Terrorism
• Supply Chain Risk Management Maturity Model
• Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum
• Supply chain security: adding to a complex operational and institutional environment, A Grainger (2007)
• World Customs Journal: special issue on supply chain security
• Port and Maritime Security Online
• Chain of Perils: Hardening the Global Supply Chain and Strengthening America's Resilience
• ISO 28002 supply chain security and resilience
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