Editors:
First comprehensive, globally-centric reference book to focus on supply chain security
Synthesizes current research, practice, and policymaking
Covers all the primary topics, from risk assessment to technology deployment, to counter-terrorism measures
Author is well-positioned to promote the book to academic, practitioner, and policymaking communities, through his extensive media contacts and as editor of the Journal of Transportation Security
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This volume presents new theoretical insights, practical strategies, and policy initiatives in the rapidly evolving field of global supply chain security. As businesses, governments, and society at large have become increasingly dependent on a global network to provide goods and services, protecting global supply chains has become an issue of vital importance for industries, nations, and regions. The "supply chain" encompasses all the links connecting a manufacturer to end users of its products. Links may take the form of plants, supplier warehouses, vendor facilities, ports or hubs, retail warehouses or facilities, and outbound shipping centers. Links also involve all the ways goods are moved-by truck, ship, airplane, or rail car.
A great deal can go wrong in the supply chain due to company or systemic mismanagement and inefficiency, criminal activity, employee or technology errors, or terrorism, to name just a few of the threats. Then there are government regulation, industry or association oversight, and security agencies (both public and private) keeping track. Globalization, stricter security regimes, and increasingly sophisticated criminal activity have made cross-border cargo movements more complex, putting the integrity of end-to-end supply chains at much greater risk. This is why the security of the supply chain has become such an important issue for business people: there is too much at stake to let problems proliferate or stagnate. It has been estimated, for example, that thieves now steal $50 billion in goods each year from various points along the supply chain.
Synthesizing the most current research, practical application, and policy, Global Supply Chain Security covers a range of emerging topics—from risk assessment to technology deployment to continuity planning—and will serve as a useful resource for anyone concerned with supply chain security issues, including scholars, students, business executives and policymakers.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Akron College of Business Administration, Akron, USA
Andrew R. Thomas
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Emanuel University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania
Sebastian Vaduva
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Supply Chain Security
Book Subtitle: Emerging Topics in Research, Practice and Policy
Editors: Andrew R. Thomas, Sebastian Vaduva
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2178-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2177-5Published: 13 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4049-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2178-2Published: 12 December 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 202
Number of Illustrations: 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Management, Economic Policy, International Economics