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Supply Chain Security Poses Opportunities, Obstacles

With hurricanes and transit bombings top-of-mind, vendors at this week's Maritime Security Conference talked up supply chain security technologies, while customers pointed to implementation hurdles that include costs, complexities, and the still emerging status of industry standards and regulations. As Hurricane Rita geared up to strike the Texas shoreline, speakers at the show in New York peppered their presentations with remarks around the urgent need to develop supply chain and other IT systems capable of dealing with all types of natural and manmade disasters. [Article]

Chemical Detection System Sniffs Out Toxic Threats

Isonics Corp. has entered the North American market with EnviroSecure, a system specifically designed to thwart supply chain attacks and other terrorist threats by detecting toxic substances such as chemical bombs in office buildings, airports and other public places. Now available for immediate sale and installation, EnviroSecure is regarded by some analysts as much more accurate than nearly all of about 40 to 50 competing products, most of which are still under laboratory development. [Article]

SC-integrity, Insurance Firm Team to Protect Cargo

SC-integrity, an enterprise supplier of wireless-enabled supply chain security services, is teaming up with Lexington Insurance Company on a new offering touted as the first to combine technology with financial insurance in the fight against cargo theft. Cargo loss represents a $50 billion menace every year, according to Ben Armistead of GTU (Greenwich Transportation Underwriters Inc.), broker representative for both SC-integrity and Lexington. [Article]

How Lockheed Martin Revamped Its Supply Chain

Changing the supply chain it uses to deliver parts and services to the U.S. military may help Lockheed Martin win new contracts, but improving its internal supply chain and manufacturing turned out to be the only way the company could keep up with increasingly complex weapons systems like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Traditionally, when the Bethesda, Md., company won a contract for a new weapons system, it typically would create a whole new production and maintenance operation for that specific system. It would manufacture parts itself that were custom-designed for that system and stockpile replacements for ongoing sale. [Article]

Performance-Based Logistics Run Deep

Performance-based logistics, or PBL, is a logistics model that puts in place specific goals and metrics to evaluate success. In the U.S. military version, it generally means that the Department of Defense buys not only a product or weapons system from a vendor such as Lockheed Martin but also an ongoing maintenance and support contract. [Article]

In China, Complex Supply Chains Yield to Simple Systems

Despite the increasing size of Western companies in China and tight supply-chain connections between Chinese and Western organizations, few of the companies operating in China are interested in sophisticated supply chain management systems. Instead, Chinese companies and global corporations with operations in China say that are looking for supply chain management technologies that offer local support, are scalable, can be modified and are reasonably priced. [Article]

Lockheed Martin Revs Up Supply Chain Ahead of F-35 Fighter

The U.S. military, which spends more than $90 billion per year on logistics and resupply, is modernizing and outsourcing much of that work to save time and money—and raise its level of preparedness. And Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, one of the military's principal contractors, is not only restructuring many of its own services but also building a whole new business to support that effort. [Article]

FDA Task Force Releases RFID Recommendations

The Food and Drug Administration's Counterfeit Drug Task Force announced June 9 its recommendations for the pharmaceutical industry regarding the use of radio-frequency identification technology to fight the proliferation of some 35 million counterfeit drugs in America. The report recommends that the FDA remove its "hold" on its so-called pedigree act, reinstating the 2007 deadline for those in the pharmaceutical supply chain to implement some form of electronic tracking technology, be that RFID, bar codes or a combination of both. [Article]

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