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Supply Chain Traceability and Risk Management
Supply Chain Traceability and Risk Management
Traceability involves documenting the history, relationships, and status of an item throughout its lifecycle, allowing you to see where it originated, who affected the product, and what it impacts.
Exposing vulnerabilities related to logistical disruptions, fraud, identity theft, sabotage, and counterfeit materials is made possible through supply chain traceability.
Traceability in a Multi-Dimensional Problem
Traceability in a Multi-Dimensional Problem
Tracing a product from its origin through transformation to disposal is best described as a web of connections, relationships, and information sets. Parallel and serial processes and timelines rule out the use of a simple tree structure for data capture.
Business Advantages of Traceability
Business Advantages of Traceability
Supply chain information is necessary to verify product provenance, demonstrate compliance with stakeholder requirements and contractual obligations, and assess the integrity of the supply chain. A good supply chain ensures visibility, reliability, and integrity via traceability of goods.
Potential conflicts, forced labour, and strategic access to strategic products such as minerals, is forcing regulators and businesses to enhance supply chains by adding end-to-end traceability.
Global supply chains are increasingly complex with many interdependencies. Component, material, and product traceability is essential for mitigating risks, preventing counterfeit products, and supporting external stakeholder requirements, such as legal, contractual, and industry-defined obligations. Exposing vulnerabilities related to logistical disruptions, fraud, identity theft, sabotage, and counterfeit materials relies on supply chain traceability.
Traceability and Requirements are not simple!
Traceability and Requirements are not simple!
Tracing a product from its origin through transformation to disposal is best described as a web of connections, relationships, and information sets. Parallel and serial processes and timelines rule out the use of a simple tree structure for data capture.
Data is distributed across different domains. Product names vary by domain and use. Sellers and buyers have different names. Information gathering requires validation, verification and attestation per node for effective traceability.
Different Requirements
Different Requirements
Security, privacy, control, and accountability are core requirements up and down the supply chain.
Suppliers share information with manufacturers, and manufacturers share information with distributors. Everyone shares information with regulators.
Each domain and sector has different business requirements expressed in a supply chain information set.
Supply chain documents are not enough!
Supply chain documents are not enough!
Moving beyond simple Supply Chains by adopting an Operational Supply Chain Solution is necessary for mitigating risk in real time. This requires the capture of information. Reading and validation of the information. Analysis to determine compliance, risk, and threats, and finally, the selection of tools to mitigate risk.
Redefining the relationship between supply chain and systems operation!
Redefining the relationship between supply chain and systems operation!
Supply chains connected to building, deploying, and supporting a computing environment have unique threat profiles. It is important to capture supply chain information, but what is the relationship of a supplied component within a computer environment? How do you verify that the components within a system are the exact components ordered? Are substatute components present? Is the microprocessor correct and performing as designed? What was the origin of the processor? What was the origin of the graphene used in the processor?
Bridging the Gap with an Operational Supply Chain
Bridging the Gap with an Operational Supply Chain
The gap between creating a supply chain and validating that the products in the supply chain are in an operational supply chain requires a tool for creating or reading supply chain information, along with tools to read hardware and software on a computing device. A device's inventory provides the required information needed to verify the presence or absence of an expected item.
You collect supply chain information, read system(s), analyse the inventory(s), and use the appropriate tools to mitigate identified risks with SysAuditor.
This is a system auditing process; the name SysAuditor is appropriate. You can find more information related to system auditing at www.sysauditor.com
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