The Supply Chain Operations Reference model (SCOR) is the product of Supply Chain Council (SCC), an independent, not-for-profit, global corporation with membership open to all companies and organizations interested in applying and advancing the state-of-the-art in supply chain management systems and practices. The SCOR model captures the Council's consensus view of supply chain management. While much of the underlying content of the Model has been used by practitioners for many years, the SCOR model provides a unique framework that links business process, 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.