New Stanford Supply Chain Security Report Tomorrow

I know you have all been burning in anticipation. Well burn no more. The report will be officially announced tomorrow at 10AM in Washington DC. Participating in the event are:

• Jerry Jasinowski, President, The Manufacturing Institute
• Theo Fletcher, Vice President, Import Compliance and Supply Chain Security, IBM Corporation
• Dr. Lesley Sept., Assistant Director, Global Supply Chain Management Forum, Stanford University
• Arnold Allemang, Senior Advisor & Member, Board of Directors, The Dow Chemical Company
  

All attendee's will receive a hard copy of the report and can participate in a Q&A. If you are interested in attending please email me at csciacca@us.ibm.com

Educating the Public on Supply Chain Security

Sorry for all of the recent postings regarding security, but its sorely needed. With a proposal on Capitol Hill that requires inspecting every container that enters the US to the recent absurd article in the NY Times that includes an Amish Popcorn manufacturer and a petting zoo as potential terror targets, education is in dire need.

If you missed the article, it's based on a new Homeland Security report that lists all of the potential terrorist targets. Unfortunately, the report is only as good as the data in it, which is from the State level. So the States actually listed the Amish Popcorn manufacturer and the petting zoo as targets, probably to get funding for some other more realistic projects.

To help educate public officials and the general public at large over the next several months IBM along with US Customs & Border Protection and several universities will be hosting a number of events. The objective is to eliminate some of the silliness, such as the Dubai ports fiasco to the current proposal on the Hill, that seems to attach itself to a very serious issue.

Executive Summary for Innovators in Supply Chain Security Report

As per my posting last week, IBM's Theo Fletcher presented in Singapore yesterday some of the recent findings from a soon to be published report called "Innovators in Supply Chain Security: Better Security Drives Business Value." The study written by Stanford University and the Manufacturing Institute is based on interviews with 11 companies and 3 logistics providers and is the first time supply chain security is presented with quantifiable results.

To register to receive a copy of the report when its released on August 1 and to download a copy of the executive summary go to http://www.ibm.com/vrm/scs1