Wal-Mart to Use Service to Assess Security Risks Abroad

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Wal-Mart Stores here has selected Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor), Austin, Texas, to assess and rank security risk in countries in its global supply chain, Stratfor announced yesterday. Stratfor will provide Wal-Mart with a supply chain security risk monitoring service whereby countries within Wal-Mart’s supply chain are ranked as high, medium or low for risks associated with the supply chain infrastructure. These include risks from terrorism, insurrection, crime, the political and regulatory environment, natural disasters, as well as several other factors related to supply chain infrastructure. Wal-Mart will use the country risk rankings and associated Stratfor analysis as the basis for determining appropriate supply chain security countermeasures and to provide early warning of emerging threats that could disrupt deliveries of goods to major markets around the world, said Stratfor.

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