A Decade of GAO’s Supply Chain Security Oversight

Toni Männistö and Juha Hintsa

A chapter in Operational Excellence in Logistics and Supply Chains: Optimization Methods, Data-driven Approaches and Security Insights, 2015, pp 443-472 from Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Institute of Business Logistics and General Management

Abstract: This study characterizes and synthetizes reports that the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent government watchdog organization, has published on supply chain security (SCS) since 2005. The study follows a systematic and transparent protocol for examining the 25 identified GAO documents. The document review reveals benefits and drawbacks of US SCS policies, initiatives and regulations. The findings allow contrasting of the US government's approach to SCS to the one of the European Commission. This comparison reveals differences and similarities in supply chain security policies both sides of the Atlantic and allows the policy makers to benchmark their approaches to supply chain security. The comparative analysis also paves the road for further EU-US harmonization and mutual recognition of the SCS programs. The study is part of European FP7-Project CORE.

Keywords: Supply Chain Security; Government Accountability Office; Customs and Border Protection; FP7-CORE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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