Global Supply Chain Security and Management
Appraising Programs, Preventing Crimes
- 1st Edition - March 1, 2017
- Author: Darren J. Prokop
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 7 4 8 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 8 2 0 - 1
Global Supply Chain Security and Management: Appraising Programs, Preventing Crimes examines the relationship between securing a supply chain and promoting more efficient worldwide… Read more
Global Supply Chain Security and Management: Appraising Programs, Preventing Crimes examines the relationship between securing a supply chain and promoting more efficient worldwide trade. Historically, the primary goal of supply chain security was guarding against theft and damage. Today, supply chains are also on the frontlines in the fight against terrorism.
This book showcases industry leaders and their best practices, also exploring how the government is both a policing organization and a supply chain partner. In addition, it covers the critical roles that various technologies play, focusing on how Big Data is collected and turned into knowledge.
By using the tools provided, readers will gain a stronger understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by any organization that imports or exports products.
- Outlines the latest technologies being used to secure infrastructures
- Leverages game theory to express the strategic interactions of government and business
- Covers the latest U.S. regulations and provides analytical tools to help make sense of these regulations
- Incorporates the latest theories and techniques of industrial organization, economics, and security
Supply chain practitioners, students of supply chain management, and supply chain government officials
Chapter 1. Introduction
- Global Supply Chain Management
- The Impact of Global Supply Chains
- Introducing the Players
- Issues and Problems Going Forward
Chapter 2. The Economics of Supply Chain Security
- Basic Economics for Supply Chain Analysis
- Industrial Organization
- Game Theory
- Issues and Problems Going Forward
Chapter 3. Threats to Supply Chains
- Human Threats
- Natural Threats
- Issues and Problems Going Forward
Chapter 4. The Role of Government
- Supply Chain Security Programs
- The Domestic Context
- The International Context
- Disaster Relief Programs
- Do the Programs Work?
- Issues and Problems Going Forward
Chapter 5. The Role of Information Technology
- From Data to Wisdom
- Cybersecurity
- Linking, Tracking, and Sensing Technology
- The Big Data Challenge
- Issues and Problems Going Forward
Chapter 6. The Business and Government Interface
- The Goals of Business
- The Goals of Government
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Issues and Problems Going Forward
Chapter 7. Trade Efficiency and Security: Are They a Trade-off?
- Supply Chain Regulation
- The Security-Efficiency Trade-off
- The Economics of Supply Chain Security Regulation
- Issues and Problems Going Forward
Chapter 8. Mitigating Risk and Measuring Success
- Complexity and Risk in the Supply Chain
- Measuring Success
- Issues and Problems Going Forward
Chapter 9. The Future of Supply Chain Security
- Nowhere to Hide
- Goals Desired and Goals Missed
- Globalization
- Conclusions
Appendix: Some Useful Concepts and Analytical Tools
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 1, 2017
- Language: English
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Darren J. Prokop
Darren J. Prokop is Professor of Logistics in the College of Business and Public Policy at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Dr. Prokop is an active consultant to government and business. He has published seminal research in the microfoundations of logistics, cabotage regulations, air cargo logistics, and supply chain security modeling. His other works include "The Business of Transportation", "Concepts of Transportation Economics", and "Global Supply Chain Security and Management".
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Logistics in the College of Business and Public Policy at the University of Alaska Anchorage, AK, USARead Global Supply Chain Security and Management on ScienceDirect