Developing taxonomy and model for security centric supply chain management

Xiangyang Li, Charu Chandra and Jiun-Yan Shiau

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 2009, vol. 17, issue 1/2, 184-212

Abstract: Security management of modern supply systems raise challenges to various aspects of Supply Chain Management (SCM) researches, demanding an integrated and holistic solution framework. In this paper, we concentrate on two fundamental instruments to support the pursuit of a Security centric Supply Chain Management (SecSCM) mission. Firstly, the security taxonomy within the SCM context provides a comprehensive knowledge map of relevant artifacts and issues for players to communicate and collaborate in this special field. Ultimately, it supplies building blocks for qualitative modelling required by security management. Secondly, security management in SCM seeks practical computation and analysis capabilities, thus requiring a migration from qualitative models to quantitative models. We utilise dependency modelling as the bridging facility and probabilistic modelling as the inference engine in our solution to deal with complexity and uncertainty dominant in SecSCM. In addition, we explore the proposition within essential application of healthcare supply chain security management. Noticing the enormous challenge presented by the new research mission, we emphasise identifying and examining generic issues and potential solutions, rather than particular problems or algorithms with limited usage and significance.

Keywords: supply networks; security centric SCM; supply chain management; design for security; security management; security taxonomy; probabilistic modelling; dependency modelling; secure supply chains; healthcare supply chains. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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