The Supply Chain 2020 Project at M.I.T. is producing landmark research destined to revolutionize how we think about 'best practices.' It wasn't all that long ago, really, that the concept of the 'supply chain' itself was new and confusing. Top executives realized there was more at stake in moving goods from Point A to Point B than traditional logistics but, in the absence of established managerial cannons, uncertainty prevailed about how to proceed. Consultants were quick to fill the void, formulating notions of 'best practices,' typically drawn from early adopter-models like Wal-Mart and Dell. With these 'universal' postulates (embodied in the building blocks of SCOR, the Supply Chain Council's Supply-Chain Operations Reference model), supply chain management moved off the loading dock and into its first stage of professionalism. Traffic managers became supply chain executives.
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