Educate for Support
Find an “evangelist”in the company who has the passion to lead a supply chain project and an executive to actively sponsor it. Both must be willing to invest personal time to learn SCOR. If an executive delegates this initial learning, the organization will probabily fail to sustain change over time.
Establish a core business team to buy into the approach and commit to supporting a project with words and deeds
Concentual application of SCOR to your own company. At this stage, a real supply chain in the company is researched and summarized as a business case.
The thirth education stage is to apply the roadmap to a real project, setting expectations and results. Using a formal SCOR coach helps to expand the learning process from individuals to the organizations by including necessary teams.
Finally comes implementation of the supply chain improvement projects.