1. Best Practices Consortium
Supply Chain
Best Practices Consortium
Strategic Assessments
Executive Seminar
General Session
September, 2006

2. The Opportunity
Today, the consortium has great tools for gathering data, researching specific issues and networking supply chain executives. But …
The tools are primarily “bottom up”, focused on specific issues.
The tools assume you know where to start – where the greatest opportunities are.
The missing part of the puzzle is the “top down” view. How am I doing overall and where are the gaps?

3. Capability Scores Assigned to each performance and process question
Point values are based on the relative value of a capability to an enterprise
Base point value – default assigned by the consortium’s technical committee
Adjusted point value (optional) – assigned by each participant to reflect their business model
Three scores – performance, process and combined
Scoring options – base or adjusted point values; all participants or filtered group
Percentile scores – percentage comparisons to peers or best practice
Score symbol – globe symbol with 4 quarters filled in to reflect quartiles (peer scores) or percent of best practice maximum
Topic completion in the online interview must be 80% or higher to receive a score

4. High value, but Difficult = 2
Opportunities
Each gap at the question level is assigned an opportunity rating based on potential value and implementation difficulty/cost
Value categories are relative to each enterprise – high, medium and low
Difficulty categories vary by capability – easy, moderate, difficult
Opportunity symbol – a 3x3 matrix is translated into an easy to read opportunity bar that ranks opportunities from 0 to 4 based on a combination of value and difficulty.
High value, but Difficult = 2

5. Assessment Options
At the top of each assessment page are the options selected by the user for each run of the assessment model.
Additional Options
Display by functional group or consolidated list
Display current year with opportunity ratings or multi-year trend of assessment scores
Sort any column (e.g. scores or opportunities) in ascending or descending sequence (consolidated list format).

6. Dashboard – Current Year by Function

7. Summary
The goal of the Strategic Assessment Dashboard is to provide a “top down” view of each participant’s supply chain. The essential elements include:
Scoring of key supply chain capabilities based on data provided in the Benchmarking & Best Practices online interview (i.e. leverage existing data)
The assignment of opportunity values and implementation difficulties to each gap identified in the ratings process
The ability to adjust scoring to fit varying business models
The ability to filter the companies included in an evaluation group
A roll up of scores to summary views
A drill down from summaries to detail gaps and opportunities