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I recently read the notes of Walt Beadling of Macungie, PA from his attendance at a forum sponsored by the Rx-360 Cargo Theft/High Risk Areas Workgroup as well as the Pharmaceutical Cargo Security Coalition. The forum focused on GPS Cargo Tracking technologies and their specific usage in pharmaceutical industry supply chains. These notes appear on […]

This post will discuss the topic of cargo theft prevention, including a review of a very well written article in Pacific Standard Magazine. The article is entitled “Long-Haul Trucking’s Billion-Dollar Cargo Theft Problem” and was written by Robin Washington. The article’s title is pretty explanatory with respect to its content. Below are some of the […]

We continue our series of reviews on articles relevant to key OpticalLock markets, where supply chain security issues play a prominent role. This particular review post takes us to an extensive piece which appeared in Inbound Logistics titled: Locking Down Supply Chain Security. This is a wide-ranging article which covers quite of bit of ground […]

I recently read another very relevant article on the importance of a supply chain security program that appeared in Supply Chain Digest. The author was Cliff Holste, the publication’s material handling editor. The article is titled “The New Age of Supply Chain Awareness”. Awareness Training is Important to a Complete Supply Chain Security ProgramIt’s a […]

We recently reviewed an article by John Tabor on  Supply Chain Critical Components that was published in LPMinsider. It was an excellent article and in this review we’ll take a look at another article by Mr. Tabor that appeared in the same publication entitled “In-Transit Cargo Theft: Impacting the Retail Supply Chain.” This article takes […]

In Part I of this series we discussed the regulations contained in the “Joint Publication 4-01 The Defense Transportation System. In this post we’ll be reviewing another enormous document, the US Defense Transportation Regulation. The focus of this discussion will be be on Part II of this document which covers Cargo Movement. Even this section […]