On July 14, 2014 ASIS International, a membership organization for security professionals, announced that it “released a new standard to help organizations address operational risks in their supply chains, including risks to tangible and intangible assets
Developed by a global, cross-disciplinary technical team and in partnership with the Supply Chain Security Council, the Supply Chain Risk Management: A Compilation of Best Practices Standard (SCRM) will serve as a practitioner’s guide to SCRM and associated processes for the management of risks within the organization and its end-to-end supply chain. This guidance Standard is a compilation of current best practices. It presents a generic approach to risk and resilience management that is applicable to all types of risk and all types of organizations.”
You can read the press release on the news page of the ASIS internet site.