SCOR® helps manage a common set of business problems through a standardized language, standardized metrics, and common business practices which accelerate business change and improve performance. Organizations which use SCOR enjoy consistent annual bottom-line improvements of 1-3%. See SCORindex for a stock-market view of SCOR-using companies. Business problems commonly solved are:
Business Management Challenges
- Strategy Development - identify, instrument, and deploy supply chain strategies within and across organziations
- Merger, Acquisition or Divestiture (companies or supply chains) - merge or split up functioning supply chains to achieve merge, acquisition, or divestiture operational goals
- Supply optimization and Re-engineering - improving individual, clusters, or networks of supply chains
- Standardization, Streamlining - improve operational control and cost by standardizing core processes
- Management alignment - create standardizes management tools, reporting, and organizational structures
- New business start-up (company and supply chain startups) - create and deploy supply chains
- Benchmarking - competitive assessment of qualitative and quantitative performance
- Process Outsourcing - identifying and outsourcing non-value add processes
Technology Services
- Software implementation (ERP, PLM, QC) - pre-implementation definition and optimization of supply chains
- Workflow & Service Oriented Architecture - optimization of IT service provisioning
Evolving:
- Skills development - standardization of skills definition, sourcing, and performance criteria