ABSTRACT

Global security professionals responsible for the safe conduct of world trade are reckoning with enterprise threats that have taken on new dimensions since 9/11. Although governments and heads of state remain the arguable targets for regime change by terror organizations, supply-chain economics of entire regions if not the world are at risk. Transnational security conventions that mitigate this risk will require a joint effort by nation states and commerce. Importantly, supply-chain security goes far beyond the needs of any country or commercial interest. It enables people, producers and consumers, the potential hope for developing economies, jobs and standards of living. All remain compelling alternatives to terror for real social change. This chapter outlines the needs and benefits of an integrated supply-chain security system through describing how the adoption of ISO 28000 standards has enabled a global coffee house to continuously improve its supply-chain security. The Guatemala case presented here and its extensions to other supply-chain security processes good serve as a road-map for other supply-chain stakeholders and interests for similar undertakings.