News / Forget linear, the digital SCOR model broadens supply chain thinking

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Companies now seem to have a significantly enlarged toolkit to assess and improve their supply chain alignment.

This week the Chicago-based Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) unveiled a revised, digital version of its Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, which describes business activities associated with satisfying customer demand.

According to the association, SCOR is “the only comprehensive, universally accepted and open-access supply chain standard”, which has been used by over 5,000 public and private organisations around the world.

The SCOR model, developed ...