Supply Chain
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Introduction
Manufacturing supply chain is basically playing a key role in identifying the modern
technologies that will be vital in the development of modern business. Diverse industries in
the form of automobile, pharmaceuticals, oil & gas and food & beverage industry is relying
heavily on the cyber security in tracking and tracing new orders. In 2012, the incident of
Shamoon virus attack affected 30,000 workstations in an oil producer and have highlighted
importance of the cyber security. The concept of product recalling, identification of
tampering and counterfeit components and even supply spectrum can be easily controlled by
cyber security. Key problems in the form of region of operation, shipment accuracy of goods
and products, physical security, internal process and social responsibilities can well
maintained under cyber security.
Supply chain risks
Most of the manufacturing industries, are facing issues in the form of faulty software that
has been hindering progress in the business. Counterfeit hardware or malware are not so
helpful in detecting the best supply chain management. Sometimes, the malwares gathers all
the vulnerable information regarding IP address and payment gateway and transfers them to
some hackers so that they can misuse the information. However, in most of manufacturing
sectors, the companies must take initiative to indulge the cyber security in the payment
gateway so that the data storage nodes and sub nodes can be protected. Five key problems
that can be found in the supply chain management are described below.
Country of origin
Country of origin is an important for the supply chain management as the
geographical location is one of the important factor that has highlighted the consequence of
supplying good quality of raw materials. Vulnerable and threat exposed countries will not be

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