As manufacturers rush to meet customer demands for new options, styles and features, product delivery is more critical than ever before. To achieve a competitive advantage and succeed in the global marketplace, organizations must improve their supply chain operations. But initiating supply chain improvement can be overwhelming. It’s a complex effort in which processes must be identified for optimization, customer needs taken into consideration, goals established and changes rapidly implemented. To accelerate today’s supply chain improvement initiatives, Metastorm offers the Reference Model for Supply Chain.

Built around the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) models developed by Supply-Chain Council (SCC) experts and used by nearly 1,000 members of the SCC, the Metastorm Supply Chain Reference Model provides a common framework that empowers organizations to identify, communicate and implement changes needed to develop a world-class supply chain.

This solution contains of a set of standard business models that deliver an end-to-end view of supply chain management processes. It serves as a resource for supply chain process owners in developing an accurate model of the business activities and information required to provide exceptional service to customers and improve the efficiency of interactions with suppliers and partners.

The Metastorm Supply Chain Reference Model includes an industry leading enterprise modeling tool, Metastorm ProVision®. This robust combination enables organizations to efficiently and quickly configure and define the complete scope of a supply chain – and then analyze the process start to finish. The Metastorm Supply Chain Reference Model represents: