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:
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:
Due Tuesday 11:59 pm (Eastern Time)