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Supply Chain Assessment, Compliance and Corrective Action -“Protecting the Brand and the Public”

Tuesday, June 7, 2005; 4:15 pm

Track: Material Handling and Operations

Presented By:

OMAR KEITH HELFERICH, Ph.D.
Michigan State University Department of Homeland Security Research Team, GSC Mobile Solutions Research Team, and Central Michigan University Faculty
Twenty-five years consulting in supply chain, logistics, and production on over 100 assignments in utility, manufacturing and distribution companies. Past partner in two worldwide consulting practices. Co-Founder of firm acquired by global consultancy
Responsible for development and application of software decision support tools for such issues as distribution network optimization, vehicle routing and scheduling, inventory planning, facility layout, and forecasting.
Directed systems functional requirements, design specification through software supplier selection, implementation and testing for applications in forecasting, materials, operations, and logistics transaction processing.

Project engineering experience in systems design including mechanical, hydraulic, safety, nuclear & environmental. Project engineering experience with manufacturers and utilities in systems design, business continuity and mitigation planning.
Consulting assignments include facility layout, inventory deployment, customer service audits, transportation planning, operations scheduling and distribution network design to achieve shorter cycle, higher quality, and lower cost materials/logistics performance.

Industry experiences involved manufacturers of building materials, electrical parts, vehicle parts, computer hardware, aircraft parts, food processor, chemicals, fiberglass, pulp/paper, utilities, & wholesale distributors.

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Session Abstract:

Firms are increasingly looking for methods to balance supply chain efficiency and effectiveness with protection and resiliency. Supply chain and security managers are looking for methods to protect their brands through improved commodity, infrastructure, and partner security and reliability. Michigan State University is lead supply chain school for the Department of Homeland Security National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD). The research is benchmarking security and protection initiatives to provide insight regarding effectiveness and efficiency. In addition, MSU working with GSC Mobile Solutions is developing standards and will test use of advanced technology for non-compliance assessment and generation of appropriate Corrective Action Response (CARs) for Critical Control Points (CCPs) within the supply chain. This session will describe the benchmarking framework and discuss the results to-date. In addition, related work in other industry segments and within the USA and outside the US such as Dubai (UAE) will be reviewed.