SCOR Model Supply Chain Performance Training Course

Course overview

Supply chain teams are often measured on cost, service, inventory and supplier performance, yet use different definitions, disconnected reports and local improvement projects. The result is slow diagnosis: a late delivery may be treated as a transport issue when the root cause lies in planning, sourcing, order management or returns. This SCOR Model Supply Chain Performance Training Course gives participants a common process and performance language for analysing end-to-end supply chain capability, identifying priority gaps and linking operational measures to business outcomes.

Over five days, participants work with the SCOR Digital Standard process framework, including the Orchestrate, Plan, Order, Source, Transform, Fulfil and Return process categories. They learn to map current-state supply chain flows, define Level 1 performance attributes, select balanced KPIs, distinguish leading from lagging measures, benchmark performance and trace metric exceptions to process causes. The course also covers SCOR practices, maturity assessment, metric hierarchies, supplier and customer interfaces, and the use of dashboards to govern improvement.

Instruction combines facilitated teaching with a running supply chain case involving demand volatility, supplier constraints, inventory pressure and declining delivery reliability. Participants build a SCOR-aligned process map, KPI dictionary, performance scorecard and prioritised improvement roadmap for their own organisation or a supplied case. They leave with a practical SCOR performance assessment pack that can be adapted for a procurement, planning, manufacturing, warehousing or distribution environment.

The course is suited to professionals who contribute to supply chain design, performance management or continuous improvement and need a structured alternative to isolated KPI reporting. Managers approving attendance gain staff who can make performance discussions more evidence-based, connect functional measures to end-to-end outcomes and frame improvement initiatives around recognised SCOR methods.

Course objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Map end-to-end supply chain activities using the SCOR Digital Standard process categories and levels
• Define Level 1 SCOR performance attributes for reliability, responsiveness, agility, cost and asset management
• Build a SCOR-aligned KPI hierarchy with metric definitions, owners, targets and reporting frequencies
• Calculate and interpret supply chain measures including perfect order fulfilment, order fulfilment cycle time and cash-to-cash cycle time
• Diagnose performance gaps by linking metric exceptions to Plan, Source, Transform, Fulfil and Return process causes
• Assess current-state supply chain maturity using a structured SCOR capability assessment
• Prioritise improvement initiatives through benefit, effort, risk and dependency analysis
• Produce a 90-day SCOR performance improvement roadmap with governance milestones and accountable owners

Benefits of attending

Target competencies

Who should attend

• Supply Chain Managers — who need a common framework for managing end-to-end performance
• Procurement Managers — who must connect supplier performance measures to service, cost and continuity outcomes
• Demand and Supply Planners — who need to diagnose planning-driven inventory and fulfilment problems
• Logistics and Distribution Managers — who are accountable for delivery reliability, cycle time and fulfilment cost
• Operational Excellence Practitioners — who lead process improvement projects across supply chain functions
• Business Analysts — who design KPI reports and need disciplined metric definitions and process context

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should understand the basic flow of materials, information and orders from supplier through customer, and be comfortable discussing inventory, lead time, service level, purchasing, production or logistics measures. Experience in one supply chain function, such as procurement, planning, warehousing, manufacturing or transport, is helpful but not mandatory. Participants should be able to use Microsoft Excel for simple tables and calculations. Prior SCOR training, formal Lean certification, ERP configuration knowledge and advanced statistics are not required. Complete beginners can attend, but should expect an intensive introduction to supply chain process and performance terminology.

Training methodology

The instructor introduces each SCOR concept through short, worked sessions before participants apply it to a running multi-tier supply chain case. Teams map process flows, calculate and challenge KPI results in Excel, identify metric-to-process relationships and compare alternative improvement actions. Facilitated discussions examine how SCOR measures translate across procurement, planning, manufacturing and logistics. Each day closes with a structured workshop output, culminating in an individual or team 90-day application plan using the participant's own operating context or the course case.

Course outline

Day 1: SCOR foundations and supply chain process architecture

• Purpose and structure of the ASCM SCOR Digital Standard
• End-to-end supply chain operating model and process boundaries
• Orchestrate, Plan, Order, Source, Transform, Fulfil and Return categories
• SCOR process levels and process decomposition logic
• Material, information and cash-flow mapping conventions
• Customer-supplier interfaces and hand-off failure points
• Current-state process mapping for a selected value stream

Workshop: Participants create a Level 1 and Level 2 SCOR process map for the case supply chain and identify three critical cross-functional hand-offs.

Day 2: SCOR performance attributes and metric design

• Reliability, responsiveness, agility, cost and asset management attributes
• Level 1 strategic metrics and performance trade-offs
• Perfect order fulfilment measurement logic
• Order fulfilment cycle time and responsiveness analysis
• Upside supply chain flexibility and adaptability measures
• Supply chain management cost and cash-to-cash cycle time
• KPI dictionary design including formulas, sources, owners and targets

Workshop: Participants calculate selected SCOR metrics from a case data set and produce a KPI dictionary with agreed definitions and data owners.

Day 3: Performance diagnosis, benchmarking and maturity

• Metric hierarchy from executive measures to operational drivers
• Leading and lagging indicator design
• Internal baseline setting and external benchmarking principles
• SCOR maturity assessment dimensions and evidence collection
• Root-cause analysis using process-metric linkage
• Pareto analysis of service, cost and inventory exceptions
• Dashboard requirements for performance review governance

Workshop: Teams complete a SCOR maturity assessment and build a performance gap analysis that traces the case company's weak service metric to process drivers.

Day 4: SCOR practices and improvement solution design

• SCOR practice selection and operating-context fit
• Demand planning and inventory policy improvement levers
• Supplier performance management and source-risk controls
• Order management and fulfilment-flow improvement options
• Return process design and closed-loop performance measures
• Benefit, effort, risk and dependency prioritisation matrix
• Improvement charter structure and business-case assumptions

Workshop: Participants select SCOR-aligned practices for the case gaps and produce three improvement charters with expected measures, owners and dependencies.

Day 5: Performance governance and implementation planning

• SCOR-aligned scorecard architecture and review cadence
• KPI ownership, escalation thresholds and corrective-action routines
• Using SAP S/4HANA and operational data sources for metric extraction
• Excel and Power BI dashboard design considerations
• Change management for cross-functional metric adoption
• Ninety-day roadmap sequencing and milestone definition
• Executive performance review presentation structure

Workshop: Participants assemble and present a SCOR performance assessment pack containing a process map, scorecard, maturity findings and 90-day improvement roadmap.

Tools & standards covered

ASCM SCOR Digital Standard, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, SAP S/4HANA

A typical training day

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in the East Africa Time zone, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

How you can take this course

Certification

Participants who complete the full five days receive the Skillset Development Certificate of Completion, stating the course title, course code, dates and delivery format — suitable for professional-development records and employer reimbursement.

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