ABSTRACT
We have proved to our management that good security is good business.
Ann Lister
Texas Instruments
Why do you need to provide security to your supply chain? If you completed the risk assessment discussed in Chapter 1, you realize the number of risks that are inherent in your supply chain operations. You must protect the supply chain from the inside and from external risks. You must protect the entire supply chain. To borrow a term from the U.S. military, you have to protect your supply chain from the “factory to the foxhole,” in other words, from the first delivery of raw materials until the product is delivered to the ultimate customer. Your supply chain concept requires end-to-end security and visibility to ensure that your products get where they are intended to be, when they were promised to the customer, and in the condition promised. Rita Mihalek told a group of senior executives at the 2003 Logistics and Supply Chain Forum, “No marketing, sales, purchasing, or delivery efforts mean anything to the customer if the products are held up by security at the border and can’t get delivered on time.”
