Driving Supply Chain Transformation Through a Business Process Oriented Approach

Abstract

n recent years, clients from various industries have been seeking help from IBM in their supply chain transformation to gain competitive advantage. We have developed a comprehensive tool, SmartSCOR, which integrates the cross-industry process standard SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) model and a variety of operations research techniques to facilitate our clients' end-to-end supply chain transformation. SmartSCOR enables structured supply chain modeling as analysis basis and analyzes both static and dynamic aspects of a supply chain. Static analysis includes benchmarking with best practices, root-cause analysis, etc. Dynamic analysis evaluates the performance and robustness of alternative supply chain designs through simulation. SmartSCOR has been successfully applied in IBM customer projects. We present two cases in this paper.

Modeling the operation of synchronized supply chains under a collaborative structure

“…SCOR can also be used as a model to develop software applications (Verdouw et al, 2011). A noted example of this is the IBM SmartSCOR framework (Ren et al, 2010). However, SCOR is also perceived as a static tool, not designed for dynamic analyses and not quite flexible enough (Albores et al, 2006).…”