Reducing Risks to Your Supply Chain Resilience
The TAPA EMEA Family now consists of over 900 companies in the Europe, Middle East & Africa region which all share one common goal: to reduce risks to their supply chain resilience.
We have reemerged after a global pandemic only to be faced with a rising cost-of-living crisis, which is helping to fuel the activities of Organised Crime Groups, stimulating the ‘black market’ for lower priced, illegally sourced goods, and, we believe, enticing more first-time criminals to be tempted by the potentially rich rewards than can result from cargo crime.
In the last 36 months, the TAPA EMEA Intelligence System (TIS) has recorded…
- >70,000 incidents of cargo thieves targeting supply chains
- >90 countries recording incident losses
- >€578 million of product losses
- >€729,000 – the average loss for crimes involving losses of €100K or more
- 20 TIS product categories recorded thefts from supply chains…
… and, yet, we know most cargo crimes are not reported to our intelligence database.
This is why avoiding disruption to supply chains is now a ‘C-suite’ focus for companies of all sizes – and it helps to explain why our membership in EMEA is now at its highest-ever level in over 23 years.
Fortunately, as the risks to supply chains increase, we are also seeing a rise in the number of companies offering solutions to manage and mitigate cargo crime threats and to prevent losses. This TAPA EMEA Supply Chain Security Products & Services Guide 2023/24 provides an opportunity for our 2023 Premier Partners and the exhibitors and sponsors from our ‘RESILIENCE@RISK’ Annual Conference in Amsterdam to showcase the solutions they offer.
As a neutral industry association, TAPA EMEA is unable to endorse any specific suppliers, but we encourage you to make your own assessments based on the information provided and to learn more about the significant bank of supply chain security knowledge and expertise these companies have in abundance. And, of course, TAPA EMEA members can also connect with these and more Security Service Providers by searching the full TAPA EMEA membership using their password-protected MyTAPA logins on our website.
We hope you find this Guide of value to support your own supply chain resilience programmes.
THORSTEN NEUMANN
President & CEO
TAPA EMEA
