A tried and tested supply
chain security management
programme (SCSM) is key to
reducing supply chain risks,
according to a report on Supply
Chain Security in the 21st
Century compiled by Securitas
and the global Pinkerton
Consulting and Investigations
agency.
It advises members of the
logistics industry to continually
evaluate their current security
situations and educate
themselves about the threats
and criminal modus operandi.
“A good place to start is to get a
qualified third party to identify
security threats as a neutral
party will have no blind spots,”
says a Securitas spokesperson.
Three aspects of security
need to be addressed –
personnel access, outsider
access and physical security
inside and outside of the
perimeter. Tracking along
the full spectrum of the
supply chain is also a major
requirement to lower threat
vulnerability.
The Transported Asset
Protection Association (Tapa)
identified several major supply
chain threat trends for 2014,
based on incidents in 2013:
Supply chain threats identified by Tapa in 2013
60% of all security issues involved poor transportation-related security.
20% involved poor security at the manufacturing site, including poor access controls and
poor security practices within the shipping and receiving departments.
75% of the incidents had an internal connection.
90% of the time, the security weaknesses were well known internally by staff.
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