ISO Releases Best Practice Guidelines for Supply Chain Security
September 25, 2006 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) released two reference documents in the ISO 28000 family of standards for supply chain security, which are designed to protect people, goods, infrastructure and equipment in the international trading system.
ISO/PAS 28001:2006 - Security management systems for the supply chain - Best practices for implementing supply chain security - Assessments and plans, will enable organizations to establish and document reasonable levels of security within international supply chains and their components.
It will allow organizations to make better risk management decisions and provides an option for independent auditing of the security established by the operator. This allows customs agencies to check and verify completed work, rather than being directly involved in the assessment, thus leveraging their work force and saving resources.
ISO/PAS 28001:2006 is intended to be used in conjunction with, and to complement, the World Customs Organization's framework of standards to secure and facilitate global trade, as well as the Authorized Economic Operator concept.
The second document, ISO/PAS 28004:2006 - Security management systems for the supply chain - Guidelines for the implementation of ISO/PAS 28000, will assist users to understand and implement ISO/PAS 28000:2005 and help maximize the benefits. It includes the complete requirements of ISO/PAS 28000, clause-by clause, followed by relevant guidance.
According to ISO, these two latest documents will help implement the recently published ISO/PAS 28000:2005, currently a publicly available specification (PAS) for security management systems for the supply chain. An ISO/PAS is one of several alternatives to fully fledged international standards offered by ISO for cases where market needs dictate priority for swift development and publication.
These new releases are part of a suite of standards being developed by ISO's technical committee ISO/TC 8 - Ships and marine technology, in partnership with other ISO technical committees, several international organizations and regional bodies to secure intermodal supply chains.
"Disruptions to international trade can have drastic consequences for everybody," said Charles Piersall, chair of ISO/TC 8. "International problems truly need international solutions to mitigate potential threats. Unilateral government actions won't work and are not enforceable globally. ISO is providing a focal point that provides industry with a clear, uniform global approach for implementation of supply chain security requirements," he said.
"The new documents are designed to enable better monitoring of supply flows, to combat smuggling and to respond to the threat of piracy and terrorist attacks, as well as to create a safe and secure international supply chain regime," Piersall said.
While ISO/PAS 28000 can be implemented on its own, it is designed to be fully compatible with ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004. Companies already using these management system standards may be able to use them as a foundation for developing a security management system according to ISO/PAS 28000.
An informative annex provides a table of correspondence between ISO/PAS 28000:2005, ISO 14001:2004 and ISO 9001:2000. It is anticipated that conformity to the documents' requirements will be verified by third-party auditing.
The new ISO documents can be used by a broad range of organizations - small, medium and large - in the manufacturing, service, storage and transportation sectors at any stage of the production or supply chain. According to ISO, their implementation will reassure business partners that security is taken seriously within the organizations with which they deal.
Source: International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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