Earlier this year I reviewed Supply Chain World North America (Minneapolis), now — while waiting for our flight to Tokyo at Singapore Airport — is a good time to review the conference in Singapore this week.
Whereas I grouped my observations for Minneapolis in the categories the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, for Singapore I […]

Atanu Roy (Hewlett-Packard India) presented a case study on the application of DCOR in the automotive industry today at Supply Chain World Asia Pacific. In his presentation mr. Roy addressed the key challenges companies face when implementing collaborative design processes:

Protection of Intellectual Property
Retaining design decisions and knowledge
Synchronization of (distributed) design information

Rod De Spong, Chief Financial Officer of Douglas Pharma presented his experiences over the past 12 months with using SCOR: “SCOR Delivers Significant Benefits to New Zealand’s Largest Pharmaceutical Company” this morning.
The case study provides a clear insight in approach and results of the Supply Chain Excellence program Douglas Pharma executed.

Last month in Sun City, South Africa, the more than 1200 attendees to the SAPICS conference had the opportunity to listen and talk to Jolanda Pretorius on SASOLs business transformation. Mrs. Pretorius presented the objectives, challenges and results of the company-wide implementation of SCOR.
As the SAPICS conference was a joint SAPICS/SCC effort you can review […]

AMR Research, in conjunction with a subgroup of the Supply Chain Council, has published the initial results of a survey of almost 200 organizations to assess the current state of the supply chain management discipline. This is an interesting report as focus on supply chain skills introduces the organizational view, whereas historically SCOR has managed the process view.
At Supply […]

In April the Supply Chain Council released version 9.0 of the SCOR model. The 9.0 book has a new section: 5. Special Applications. The intend of section 5 is to give members insight in research and proposed additions to the model. In SCOR 9.0 section 5 contains a proposed set of metrics for ‘environmental accounting’. […]

SCOR certification is a fact. Starting next month candidates can take the tests and achieve SCOR/P certification. SCORtalk reviewed the process and has the need-to-know information. 

Now that we have returned from a trip to cold Minneapolis it may be a good time to look back at Supply Chain World North America. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

We looked at the program for the 2008 North American Supply Chain World Conference and Exposition scheduled for next month in Minneapolis. Some of the presentations on the program were to be expected:

SCORmark; the (free-for-members) benchmarking initiative announced last year. (How to Benchmark Using SCORmark - March 19)
Lean/Six Sigma convergence; the special interest group that […]

Last month I wrote the first article in this series about the language problems retail companies may face when considering the adoption of SCOR and how D4 in SCOR doesn’t really fix that problem. Today I want to fulfill my promise to address D2 for Retail.
Let’s define D2 first. D2 is the process of fulfilling customer orders […]