Logistics & Supply Chain

Logistics organisations are judged on things that are hard to see: whether the cargo was secure between two points, whether the cold chain held, whether the paperwork will clear customs, and whether the operation recovers when a route, a port or a system fails.

ISO 28000 addresses supply chain security across facilities, cargo, transport and partners, and overlaps substantially with the control evidence required for AEO status. ISO 9001 addresses service consistency and documentation accuracy. ISO 22301 addresses the disruption scenarios that define this sector — port congestion, route closure, system outage, single-facility dependency.

For 3PL and freight forwarding organisations bidding for multinational contracts, certification is frequently the difference between being evaluated and being filtered out.