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Managing Supply Chain Security

Wednesday, June 8, 2005; 4:00 pm

Track: Distribution, Logistics and Transportation

Presented By:

Dr. Michael R. Crum,
Professor of Logistics and Transporation
Iowa State University

Michael R. Crum is the John and Ruth DeVries Chair in Business and Professor of Transportation and Logistics at Iowa State University. He earned D.B.A., M.B.A., and B.S. degrees in Transportation Management from Indiana University. Mike has been a faculty member at Iowa State since 1980, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Warsaw School of Economics in Warsaw, Poland in 1988-89.

Mike teaches business logistics, supply chain management, and transportation management and economics at both the graduate and undergraduate level. His primary research interests include carrier management, transportation labor, supply chain management, and supply chain security. Mike has authored or co-authored more than seventy research publications including three books. His publications appear in the leading journals in the field. Additionally, he has been a principal investigator on three U.S. Department of Transportation research projects.

Session Abstract:

Protecting products and facilities from unwanted tampering and intrusion is important to the safety of consumers and employees. As the events of 9/11/01 demonstrated, it is equally important for public safety to prevent the use of transportation equipment as weapons of destruction. This session will present the results of a supply chain security study conducted at Iowa State University.

Based on a survey of supply chain executives at manufacturing and distribution companies, the study investigates security issues involving several supply chain management activities and processes including the sourcing, packaging, storage, transportation, and delivery of products. Specifically, the research investigates:

• supply chain security management processes and practices that are currently in place and expected to be implemented in the near future

• how firms evaluate investments in security initiatives and programs

• the key benefits firms have realized from security initiatives as well as key costs and challenges

• the association of specific security management processes and practices with desirable security outcomes

• what differentiates firms that are satisfied with their security performance from those that are not