Speaking of a supply chain security challenge, one of United Iron and Metal’s warehouses is outdoors in a hard-scrabble urban neighborhood of Baltimore, and it sprawls over more than 20 acres with one boundary chockablock against railroad tracks. Unwanted visitors were a relentless headache... until John Creighton, the director of security at United Iron and Metal, did something about it.
Creighton’s security mission is specific, of course, to his type of business and location. But he shares an overall responsibility with distribution centers, warehouses and the myriad businesses along an always vulnerable supply chain.