PrintRead:
- FEMA, Department of Homeland Security, Supply Chain Resilience Guide. April 2019.
- Dan Larson. Global Survey Reveals Supply Chain as a Rising and Critical New Threat Vector. Crowdpoint Strike. Blog. 23 Jul 2018.
Threats to global commerce range from destructive weather events to criminal theft to cyber attacks on the supply chain infrastructure. The responsibilities to secure a business’ supply chain are a daunting task and require education, awareness, teamwork, strategic planning, inspections, and continual surveillance. This falls under the headings, roles, and departments of Supply Chain Security and Supply Chain Management (SCM).
Supply Chain Security is a major concern for commercial and government leaders alike. Building resilience in the supply chain is an effective planning element to responding to disasters, intrusions, and catastrophic events. A Supply Chain is that network which identifies, tracks, reports, monitors, and fulfills demand for products. Products may be perishable foods, technical manufactured tools, pharmaceuticals, digital software, or granite counters; transported by air, land, rail, sea, e-delivery, cloud storage, and in-person.
The fundamental issues to learn in this short lesson are the risks, threats, and vulnerabilities of an organization’s supply chain. Security topics or needs include:
- People, personnel security (background checks, behavioral, termination control)
- Physical security and access controls
- IT systems, IT and operations accounts, supply chain data
- Shipping and receiving workflow documentation
- Business/firm/broker relationships (know your partners)
- Security process & security awareness throughout the organization and supply-chain
Fundamentals of Supply Chain Security
- Describe the drivers
- Explain the methods used to understand the operating environment and threats
- Understand and apply the fundamentals of Location Intelligence to Supply Chain Security
Multisource Intelligence for Supply Chain Security
- Employ the concepts of intelligence management & collection
- Illustrate intelligence collation & analysis
- Apply the elements of intelligence dissemination
Operational Methods for Supply Chain Security
- Describe and develop operational models & intelligence estimates
- Complete and critique a case study
Deliverable:
Post a comment and two responses in Canvas to the Lesson 6.3 - Supply Chain Security Management forum.
Considering the information you learned from both reading assignments, share your viewpoints on Supply Chain Security. Either answer one of these questions, or share a new, relevant concern:
- What industries are most vulnerable to risks, theft, or attack and should focus more effort on Supply Chain Security?
- Where do geospatial analysts fit into Supply Chain Resilience, what is the greatest impact they can achieve?
Due Tuesday 11:59 pm (Eastern Time)