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SCOR Metrics - Is It Enough?

November 21, 2007 By: Ramlee Ibrahim Category: SCM 2 Comments →

Supply-chain and manufacturing professionals have always used a large number of metrics to measure the health of their functional areas, because these areas tend to create most of the value for their companies, while also generating most of the company’s total expenses. These metrics were standardized and codified by the SCOR (The Supply-Chain Operations Reference-model) effort in the 1990s and early 2000s.  So, the idea of measurement is not new to these professions. But how do traditional supply chain and manufacturing metrics fit into today’s emerging strategic dashboards?  That is, how does SCOR fit with scorecards? First, a quick look back at the history of SCOR.