The following material presents a brief Supply Chain Security Management
System (SCSMS) Development Plan. It summarizes the general approach
you would take to develop your own SCSMS. It uses a PDCA approach and
is taken directly from our plain English version of the standard. If you use
our Plain English ISO 28000 Standard to develop your organization’s
SCSMS, you will automatically take the following steps:

1. Define the scope of your organization’s SCSMS.
2. Define your organization’s security management policy.
3. Develop a methodology to identify threats and assess risks.
4. Establish procedures to identify threats and assess risks.
5. Identify your organization’s threats and assess your risks.
6. Establish procedures to identify and select security controls.
7. Select and implement your security control measures.
8. Respect legal, statutory, and regulatory requirements.
9. Establish your organization’s security objectives.
10. Establish your organization’s security targets.
11. Establish programs to achieve objectives and targets.
12. Establish security management roles and responsibilities.
13. Appoint a member of top management to manage security.
14. Ensure the competence of those who influence security.
15. Establish security training and awareness procedures.
16. Implement security training and awareness procedures.
17. Establish procedures to manage security communications.
18. Establish a security management documentation system.
19. Control your organization’s security documents and data.
20. Implement operational security control measures.
21. Establish emergency SCSMS plans and procedures.
22. Monitor and measure your security performance.
23. Maintain a record of monitoring and measuring activities.
24. Evaluate your SCSMS plans, procedures, and capabilities.
25. Investigate security incidents and take remedial action.
26. Control your organization’s security management records.
27. Perform regular audits of your organization’s SCSMS.
28. Review your SCSMS at planned intervals.
29. Update and improve your SCSMS.