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Determining Risk

INFORMATION IN THIS CHAPTER:

• How to determine the overall risk of theft in a supply chain

• Methods for conducting risk and security assessments

• Sources of information in determining and managing risk

• Key factors of supply chain operations that create risk

Companies are coming to grips with the fact that it is far more difficult for them to control and understand the risks associated with today’s truly global and interconnected and thus increasingly vulnerable supply chain. While the increasing risks to supply chains are becoming more understood, which go beyond cargo theft specifically and include other forms of risk such as supply chain disruptions, delays, and terrorism, it can be extremely difficult to quantify ...

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