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By far the best known and most detailed performance metrics are encompassed in the Supply Chain Operations reference – SCOR model, which was created in 1995 and has been continuously refined ever since. The SCOR model provides an industry-standard approach to analyze, design, and implement changes to improve performance throughout five integrated supply chain processes: plan, source, make, deliver, and return – spanning the full gamut from a supplier’ supplier to a customer’s customer and every point in between. The SCOR model is aligned with a company’s operational strategy, material, work flows, and information flows.<ref>David Blanchard, Supply Chain Management, Best Practices, New Jersey,  John Wiley & Sons, 2007, 44</ref>
By far the best known and most detailed performance metrics are encompassed in the Supply Chain Operations reference – SCOR model, which was created in 1995 and has been continuously refined ever since. The SCOR model provides an industry-standard approach to analyze, design, and implement changes to improve performance throughout five integrated supply chain processes: plan, source, make, deliver, and return – spanning the full gamut from a supplier’ supplier to a customer’s customer and every point in between. The SCOR model is aligned with a company’s operational strategy, material, work flows, and information flows.<ref>David Blanchard, Supply Chain Management, Best Practices, New Jersey,  John Wiley & Sons, 2007, 44</ref>
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As explained by Peter Bolstorff and Robert Rosenbaum in Supply Chain Excellence, a handbook on using the SCOR model, the five SCOR processes encompass the following measurable activities:
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As explained by Peter Bolstorff and Robert Rosenbaum in Supply Chain Excellence, a handbook on using the SCOR model, the five SCOR processes encompass the following measurable activities<ref>Peter Bolstorff and Joseph Rosenbaum, Supply Chain Excellence: A  Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model, New York: Amacom, 2003, 2-3</ref>:
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* Plan: Assess supply resources; aggregate and prioritize demand requirements; plan inventory for distribution, production, and material requirements; and plan rough-cut capacity for all products and all channels.
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* '''Plan''': Assess supply resources; aggregate and prioritize demand requirements; plan inventory for distribution, production, and material requirements; and plan rough-cut capacity for all products and all channels.
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* Source: Obtain, receive, inspect, hold, issue, and authorize payment for raw materials and purchased finished goods.
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* '''Source''': Obtain, receive, inspect, hold, issue, and authorize payment for raw materials and purchased finished goods.
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* Make: Request and receive material; manufacture and test product; package, hold, and/or release product.
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* '''Make''': Request and receive material; manufacture and test product; package, hold, and/or release product.
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* Deliver: Execute order management processes; generate quotations; configure product; create and maintain a customer database; maintain a product/price database; manage accounts receivable, credits, collections, and invoicing; execute warehouse processes, including pick, pack, and configure; create customer-specific packaging/labeling; consolidate orders; ship products; manage transportation processes and import/export; and verify performance.
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* '''Deliver''': Execute order management processes; generate quotations; configure product; create and maintain a customer database; maintain a product/price database; manage accounts receivable, credits, collections, and invoicing; execute warehouse processes, including pick, pack, and configure; create customer-specific packaging/labeling; consolidate orders; ship products; manage transportation processes and import/export; and verify performance.
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* Return: defective, warranty, and excess return processing, including authorization, scheduling, inspection, transfer, warranty administration, receiving and verifying defective products, disposition, and replacement.
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* '''Return''': defective, warranty, and excess return processing, including authorization, scheduling, inspection, transfer, warranty administration, receiving and verifying defective products, disposition, and replacement.
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SCOR model is used like a language to communicate among supply-chain partners. It decomposes processes in the company to process elements, then to tasks, and then to activities. SCOR model includes three levels of details <ref>Faisal M.N., Banwet D.K., Shankar R. Management of Risk in Supply Chains: SCOR approach and Analytic Network Process. 2007. An international journal, Vol. 8, #2.</ref>:
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* Top-level (to define scope of supply-chain operations);
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* Configuration level (on the basis of specific configuration, supply chain operations are based);
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* Process element level (companies “fine tune” their operations strategy)
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SCOR is the first model which can be used to configure the supply-chain based on a business strategy. SCOR model is used to measure supply-chain processes in organizations. There are more than 150 key metrics organized hierarchically. By that model all departments can develop integrated supply chain and collaborate effectively. SCOR model is using as theoretical framework for different researches in the field of SCM (e.g. “Management of risks in Supply Chains: SCOR approach and Analytic Network Process” by Faisal, Banwet and Shankar, 2007). Also, many companies are using SCOR model for their business. There are list of them on the website of Supply Chain council.   SCOR was used as reference model to document HP and Compaq Supply Chains and helped during the process of their merger. Siemens Medical using SCOR model decreased delivery time from 22 to 2 weeks and inventory by 60%. U.S. Marine Corps reduced 200 logistics systems to handful Internet-enabled systems. Volvo by using SCOR received such benefits: standard language and nomenclature, incorporated best practices and metrics, accelerated process understanding and definition and depicted relationships between supply chain partners. SCOR model is useful both for simple and complex supply chains because it represents integrated and unified approach. SCOR model is the basis for improvements in supply chain in global scale. SCOR model is developing and the number of organizations using it is rising because it provides unambiguous standard descriptions for the thousand of activities.
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Some other SCM definitions:
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* '''Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP):''' SCM is encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing and procurement, conversion, and all Logistics Management activities. Importantly, it also includes coordination and collaboration with channel partners, which can be suppliers, intermediaries, third party service providers, and customers. In essence, Supply Chain Management integrates supply and demand management within and across companies.<ref>Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) - www.cscmp.org</ref>
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*'''Mentzer et al. (2001):''' SCM is the systematic, strategic coordination of the traditional business functions within a particular company and across businesses within the supply chain, for the purposes of improving the long-term performance of the individual companies and the supply chain as a whole.<ref>Mentzer J.T., DeWitt W., Keebler J.S., Min S., Nix N.W., Smith C.D. and Zacharia Z.G. (2001)
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Defining supply chain management, Journal of Business Logistics, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 1-25. </ref>
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*'''Larson and Rogers (1998):''' SCM is the coordination of activities, within and between vertically linked firms, for the purpose of serving end customers at a profit.<ref>Larson P. and Rogers D. (1998) Supply chain management: definition growth and approaches, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 1-5</ref>
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==Supply Chain Management Frameworks==
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SCM frameworks or models are reference points for practitioners and researcher. Below there are two basic frameworks: SCOR and Metzer model that are most popular in specialized literature.
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==Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR)===
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The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, developed by the Supply Chain Council
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(SCC) and AMR Research in 1996 is one of the most popular models. According to Supply Chain Council, this model provides a unique framework that links business processes, metrics, best practices and technology features into a unified structure to support communication among supply chain partners and to improve the effectiveness of supply chain management and related supply chain improvement activities.<ref>( Supply Chain Council, 2009)</ref> SCOR is used to identify, measure, reorganize and improve supply chain processes through a cyclical process that includes:
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*Measuring the performance of the supply chain and comparing against internal and external
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The SCOR model five processes: plan, source, make, deliver and return. Each process is
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implemented through four individual levels. The first level defines the scope and content of the model itself, as well as specifying basis for competition performance targets. At level two, companies implement their operations strategies dependent upon the configurations they choose for their supply chains. Level three defines inputs, outputs, and flows of each transactional element, and finally, level four defines the implementation of specific supply chain management practices.<ref> Lockamy III, A. and McCormack, K. (2004). Linking SCOR planning practices to supply chain performance, an exploratory study. International Journal of Operations & Business Management, 24, (12), 1192-1218.</ref> The source, make, and deliver processes of the SCOR model create a continuous chain of activity throughout a company’s internal operations and, potentially, across the whole inter-organizational supply chain.
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==The Mentzer Model==
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Mentzer and his colleagues defined supply chain management in this analysis as “the systematic, strategic coordination of the traditional business functions and tactics across these business functions within a particular company and across businesses within the supply chain, for the purposes of improving the long term performance of the individual companies and the supply chain as a whole.”
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According to this definition, SCM includes multiple firms (supply chain actors) and multiple business activities. The definition is accompanied with the model (see figure). The supply chain looks like a pipeline that includes supply chain flows (services, products, information, materials, money, etc.), inter-functional coordination of business functions (marketing, sales, research and development, forecasting, production, logistics, etc.), which based on trust, commitment, risk and dependence. Mentzer model assumes, that at the end of supply chain there should be two important outcomes: greater customer satisfaction at less costs due to better organization of all flows. These two outcomes form competitive advantage on other supply chains (not individual companies).
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==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 14:11, 20 September 2012

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By far the best known and most detailed performance metrics are encompassed in the Supply Chain Operations reference – SCOR model, which was created in 1995 and has been continuously refined ever since. The SCOR model provides an industry-standard approach to analyze, design, and implement changes to improve performance throughout five integrated supply chain processes: plan, source, make, deliver, and return – spanning the full gamut from a supplier’ supplier to a customer’s customer and every point in between. The SCOR model is aligned with a company’s operational strategy, material, work flows, and information flows.[1]

As explained by Peter Bolstorff and Robert Rosenbaum in Supply Chain Excellence, a handbook on using the SCOR model, the five SCOR processes encompass the following measurable activities[2]:

  • Plan: Assess supply resources; aggregate and prioritize demand requirements; plan inventory for distribution, production, and material requirements; and plan rough-cut capacity for all products and all channels.
  • Source: Obtain, receive, inspect, hold, issue, and authorize payment for raw materials and purchased finished goods.
  • Make: Request and receive material; manufacture and test product; package, hold, and/or release product.
  • Deliver: Execute order management processes; generate quotations; configure product; create and maintain a customer database; maintain a product/price database; manage accounts receivable, credits, collections, and invoicing; execute warehouse processes, including pick, pack, and configure; create customer-specific packaging/labeling; consolidate orders; ship products; manage transportation processes and import/export; and verify performance.
  • Return: defective, warranty, and excess return processing, including authorization, scheduling, inspection, transfer, warranty administration, receiving and verifying defective products, disposition, and replacement.

SCOR model is used like a language to communicate among supply-chain partners. It decomposes processes in the company to process elements, then to tasks, and then to activities. SCOR model includes three levels of details [3]:

  • Top-level (to define scope of supply-chain operations);
  • Configuration level (on the basis of specific configuration, supply chain operations are based);
  • Process element level (companies “fine tune” their operations strategy)

SCOR is the first model which can be used to configure the supply-chain based on a business strategy. SCOR model is used to measure supply-chain processes in organizations. There are more than 150 key metrics organized hierarchically. By that model all departments can develop integrated supply chain and collaborate effectively. SCOR model is using as theoretical framework for different researches in the field of SCM (e.g. “Management of risks in Supply Chains: SCOR approach and Analytic Network Process” by Faisal, Banwet and Shankar, 2007). Also, many companies are using SCOR model for their business. There are list of them on the website of Supply Chain council. SCOR was used as reference model to document HP and Compaq Supply Chains and helped during the process of their merger. Siemens Medical using SCOR model decreased delivery time from 22 to 2 weeks and inventory by 60%. U.S. Marine Corps reduced 200 logistics systems to handful Internet-enabled systems. Volvo by using SCOR received such benefits: standard language and nomenclature, incorporated best practices and metrics, accelerated process understanding and definition and depicted relationships between supply chain partners. SCOR model is useful both for simple and complex supply chains because it represents integrated and unified approach. SCOR model is the basis for improvements in supply chain in global scale. SCOR model is developing and the number of organizations using it is rising because it provides unambiguous standard descriptions for the thousand of activities.

References

  1. David Blanchard, Supply Chain Management, Best Practices, New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons, 2007, 44
  2. Peter Bolstorff and Joseph Rosenbaum, Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model, New York: Amacom, 2003, 2-3
  3. Faisal M.N., Banwet D.K., Shankar R. Management of Risk in Supply Chains: SCOR approach and Analytic Network Process. 2007. An international journal, Vol. 8, #2.
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