Chapter 8 Supply Chain Security – Threats and Solutions Daniel Ekwall Additional information is available at the end of the chapter http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/48365 1. Introduction In recent years‚ the cargo transport process has improved mainly in the areas of logistics efficiency and documentation handling. The World Trade Centre terror attack in 2001 changed the world and with it the conditions for logistics world-wide. The logistics consequences were according to[1]: It is instructive
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Under Armour Under Armour is an American sports clothing and accessories company. The company supplies a wide range of sportswear and casual apparel. They mainly focus on hi-tech sportswear for professional athletes. Under Armour’s global headquarters is located in Baltimore‚ Maryland. The company was founded in 1996 by Kevin Plank‚ a 23-year old former special teams captain for the University of Maryland football team. Plank began the business from his grandmother’s basement in Washington‚ D. C
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differentiating definitions of terrorism through out the world’s governments‚ agencies‚ and international community has led to a confusing and bleak understanding of the true nature of terrorism. Now I do not believe that my definition of terrorism will be any better in helping understand this matter but it does help define my personal view of terrorism‚ terrorists‚ and their tactics. My definition of terrorism is any deliberate‚ planed use of force or violence‚ or the threat of such actions‚ against innocent
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There are many threats to global food supplies. Explain the problem‚ identity possible solutions‚ and assess the implications of implementing these solutions. Because of the increasing world population and the growth of the environmental problems such as global warming and acid rain‚ global food supplies meet great challenges to feed so many people especially those in economically richer areas wasting foods. A series of problems following food supply shortage like the competition of land
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Security threat groups or‚ "prison gangs" pose a daily problem within the walls of our national prisons and officials must constantly devise new methods in dealing with an ever growing population of inmates. The difference in dealing with multiple gangs is that prison officials focus on the group behavior rather than centering on individual involvement. With the focus on the whole group‚ one then must develop plans or procedures when controlling various threats within a correctional facility.
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The Security Threats Of Online Shopping Have you ever bought a book from Amazon‚ purchased a movie or a music album from iTunes‚ booked and paid for a hotel room or a plane ticket at Expedia‚ ordered clothes or cosmetics from the brand’s website‚ sold your unused stuff on eBay‚ ordered a fitness class with discount through Groupon? If the answer is yes‚ then you are an online shopping consumer. Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows people to purchase and sell products or
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accessibility to exchange information through this network. However‚ there are many security limitations when using the internet. At this time‚ Healthcare Cybersecurity has been a significant target for these limitations as the unbearable growth of security threats for health care providers‚ insurance companies‚ and business associates have increased. According to the Infosec Institute‚ in 2015 “over 100 million healthcare records were compromised during that year‚ from more than 8‚000 devices in more than
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Warming a threat to the Human Population? Global warming has been a lot in the media and most people have probably discussed it and feared it for an amount of years now. In the media‚ Global Warming has been presented as a catastrophic event that will change the world as we know it‚ and have disastrous and horrible effects on us‚ and that it might be our demise. At first‚ scientists believed Global Warming to be a result of too much human activity‚ but as they years have passed and they have researched
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"There is evil everywhere under the sun." - Hercule Poirot (The Great Belgian Detective) I book I have recently read is ’Evil under the Sun’ by Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie is famous for her crime mystery novels and short stories and like any other of her books this one is also a murder mystery. This book brings excitement and also challenges you to solve the mystery that Christie has brilliantly presented with the use of rather simple words and everyday language and repeats it‚ rather than
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Rhetorical Analysis: “New Threat to Skilled U.S. Workers” Froma Harrop is a frequent writer for the Providence Journal‚ who is also known for her progressive views on current issues. Her essay titled “New Threat to Skilled U.S. Workers” was published in the Seattle Times in 2007 in which she is persuading American skilled workers to put a stop to the H-1B program‚ or else they might be left jobless. Due to the fact that she is liberal in her views‚ it is clear why she is enforcing a strong opinion
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