When: Friday, March 21, 2003
Presented By
William D. Agee, Jr., C.P.M., C.E.M., CPE, CPP

This session is approved for CPM certification points through ISM.

I wanted to bring to your attention one of the most critical educational programs you need to avail to your organization's attention; Terrorism and Your Supply Chain. This session was developed for the Office of Homeland Security by William D. Agee and Associates, Inc., a long-time provider of educational programs both on a national and international level for organizations and trade associations around the globe. The awareness of the government that supply managers could well hold the key to ensuring a successful outcome in the event of some tragic catastrophe demands our companies be better prepared.

Considering the times and events transpiring around the globe it would be very wise and prudent for supply manager and corporate executives to make themselves aware of the real risks that could occur connected with terrorist activities both domestically and abroad. This session was developed to educate management and those connected with ensuring corporate value the risks that could be in your area today.

The Hart Senate Office Building was closed for over 8 months after an anthrax attack and the clean up cost exceeded $27 million dollars. The Japanese subway system was closed for several months and over a dozen people died from a nerve gas attack in the mid 90's. The heightened concern with the use of WMD (weapons of mass destruction), biological or chemical, looms as an ever present threat. How long would it take to decontaminate an entire industrial park? Do radical groups have suitcase nuclear explosives? Russia has 147 such devices on inventory so how many were missing from the last inventory? How long would it take to decontaminate and entire industrial park? Would you be prepared if it were released in Dallas, Miami, Chicago or Portland?

Unfortunately, these are the sad realities we must address in the world today.

The greatest fear of the government is the panic that can consume a community if these events do come to fruition. However,supply managers pose one of the greatest assets to protecting the American way of life. This session will allow supply managers to again assert their position of strategic resources in their company and our patriotic responsibilties to our country. The session will impart an understanding of what certain attacks can and would mean to the country, as well as the impact to your company going forward.

In this session; you will understand the roots of terrorism, the different types of terrorism, the five major types of weapons that could be employed, the short-term and long-term consequences of each of these acts, what the Office of Homeland Security can provide, how this can impact your supply chain, the time and cost factors, the plans you need to have prepared at your firm, the concerns about your suppliers facilities, the Genesis, Phoenix and Gemini projects, the best ways to safeguard the ongoing of your firms economic survival, and return both calm and control to all concerned.

This session is extremely vital for every professional manager and to be pro-active in our planning and every vigilant in our future contracts and supplier selections. This is not a session that can wait for making your senior executives aware. We need to bring this session to your staff and other groups; sales, purchasing, distribution, manufacturing and corporate executives, that could be impacted at your location. The old adage states; “Chance favors a prepared mind.” If you have not thought about, or considered the impact, these events could have upon your organization it would make us remiss in our duties as professionals.

This course needs to be delivered as soon as possible to ensure your teams are on the cutting edge of understanding and adding value to companies long-term goals and objectives. If you would like a detail outline please feel free to contract our office and let’s schedule one of the most important sessions you could hear for your future.

Seminar Outline

I. Introduction
a. What is Terrorism?
b. Four types of Terrorism
c. Cost of Terrorism to you
II. Business Risk Under Terrorism
a. Types of business risks
b. Old Concepts and Risk
c. New applications of risk
d. Short & long-term effects
III. Planning for Terrorism
a. Never fully prepared
b. Desk Manual for Terrorism
IV. Weapons Designed for Mass Effect
a. Chemical Terrorism
b. Biological Terrorism
c. Cyber-Terrorism
d. Explosives\WMD
V. Force Majuere, Act of God\Government
a. Which is acceptable to customers?
b. Overview of legal implications of terrorist acts
VI Supply Chain Risk Assessment
a. High profile determination
b. Identifying the top three areas of risk
c. Rank products by value and profit
d. Three-Tier Options
e. Cost Implications of Each option
f. Mapping the System
g. BPI-Total Cost Factors
h. Concerns of the new route
i. Determining the Trigger Mechanism
VII Genesis-Phoenix-Gemini Strategy
a. "Arise from the Ashes"
b. Assessment of Type\Cause of Action
c. It's Too Late For A Plan Now!!
d. The Eden Factor
e. On Comes the Phoenix
f. Gemini is Started
VIII Planning for Terrorism
IX Conclusion