While the framework seems simple, there are multiple levels of detail integrating more than sixty process steps, 200 metrics, fifty leading practices, and a hundred potential material flow configurations.
Simply having the dictionary does nothing to save money. You need to do something with it. That's what the SCOR Project Roadmap is about. (See Figure 1-2.) In four distinct segments, the roadmap addresses operational strategy, material flow, and work and information flow. The segments are:
Analyze your basis of competition, which focuses on supply chain metrics and operations strategy.
Configure supply chain material flow.
Align performance levels, practices, and systems—the information and work flow.
Implement the supply chain changes to improve performance.
Figure 1-2: SCOR project roadmap.
Each segment is comprised of deliverables that help a company understand and improve a specific dimension of supplychain performance. The first segment helps to understand how many supply chains a company has and how they are performing compared to the competition. The second segment helps to optimize material flow inefficiency. The third helps to optimize transactional productivity. And the fourth helps to plan and implement supply chain improvements.
The SCOR Project Roadmap can be applied to projects of narrow scope, or broad-based initiatives that integrate many supply chains across multiple trading partners. It can work for manufacturers, distributors, retailers, value-added resellers, wholesalers, dealers, franchises, and service providers. It does well in a subordinate role within Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise infrastructures. And with a little creativity, the model can even be used to assemble sophisticated Internet-based trading networks, exchanges, and portals.