GlobalSecur® Secure Logistics Services
“Supply chain design and optimization is a significant source of revenue growth" - protecting the product is a significant part of that equation. Logistics security has become one of the most complex and high visibility security challenges facing senior executives. The loss or diversion of finished product or raw material can have debilitating effects that cascade through your company’s operations and can impact organizational credibility.
In today's competitive environment, supply chain vulnerabilities have taken on a greater significance than before, and are receiving more attention in the effort to achieve greater efficiency. Supply chain weaknesses have directed senior management focus and involvement, since future profitability will depend on how customers decide on and receive their purchases. Success in the marketplace will increasingly relate to how companies exploit their supply chain efficiencies and differentiation to competitive advantage.
But as integrated logistics practices have evolved, so have the risk of theft and loss to goods on the move. Supply chain security design and optimization, as a means of ensuring that product remains in the intended channel of distribution, is increasingly an important factor in today's competitive and just-in-time markets.
IMG has developed investigative methodologies and protective strategies that have provided measurable results and have gained the support of logistics and transportation professionals — especially when significant security improvement stemmed from process changes that required a minimum of cost.
Supply Chain Complexities
Complex supply chain activities demand uninterrupted operations every day, around the clock, around the corner, or around the world. They demand process continuity to avoid non- or unacceptable delivery. Ultra JIT methodologies or lengthy supply chains accentuate the consequences of product theft, loss or damage — gone are the days of easy product replacement or acceptable loss levels. Companies now expect that their business partners reflect these goals as part of their "value proposition" by protecting their product in their increasingly sophisticated and demanding distribution networks.
How IMG Can Add Value
IMG can support your supply chain security effort with skills honed through years of protecting high value and sensitive goods in all stages of their life cycle from factory to end user delivery. These services can be applied end-to-end in your supply chains, or to solve problems in specific locations or transportation lanes:
- Examine supply chain activities to pinpoint losses, identify existing vulnerabilities and suggest remedies that are specific to your products, operations and locations.
- For your warehouses, distributions facilities and factories, recommend consistent security practices that reflect, support and enhance supply chain business processes, such as awareness, accountability, product “visibility”, secure hand-over, reporting and escalation/response protocols that are the key to a successful preventive program.
- Work with your in-house professionals at basic or complex logistics/materials management levels to reduce losses due to theft or misrouting of product.
- Define the security elements necessary for third party providers to discharge their responsibilities for the proper care, custody and control of your product.
- Offer advice on and design protective security strategies to protect product during all phases of manufacturing, packaging and distribution.
- Investigate and control commercial counterfeiting and gray market activities.
IMG Clients
IMG's clients include those engaged in high technology, pharmaceutical, automotive, and consumer business activities as well as their major logistics and transportation partners. Our experience extends to inbound handling of raw materials/key components, through staging, production, assembly, packaging, and outbound shipment using multiple carriers and transiting numerous borders before end user delivery.
We are confident that IMG is positioned to substantially reduce your supply chain losses. Our goal is the same as yours — to focus on our core business and to stay ahead through prevention.
Secure Logistics Services - Overview
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