Securing Supply Chains from Counterfeiting Threats in a Transformed Open and Collaborative Enterprise

Recent years have seen counterfeit part intrusions into the defense supply chain. Previous work has studied this problem using enterprise simulation to determine effective combinations of policies to mitigate the effects of counterfeits. This paper considers a transformed version of the enterprise and its supply chain as a means of combating the counterfeiting problem. Elements of this transformation are consistent with the Physical Internet paradigm. This paper presents the transformed enterprise and supply chain, as well as an enterprise simulation model that can be used to evaluate the transformed enterprise, as well as different pathways of transformation.