SCSUS03-BP01 Use the supply chain operations reference (SCOR) to map your supply chain - Supply Chain Lens

SCSUS03-BP01 Use the supply chain operations reference (SCOR) to map your supply chain

Consider the adoption of the SCOR model or equivalent standardized models like Value Reference Model (VRM) and managing for supply chain performance (M4SC) to map your supply chains and keep related metrics monitored, to be sure you are aligning planning, execution and enablement to the actual demand, leading to emissions optimizations.

Desired outcome: Develop a structured, measurable, and adaptable view of your supply chain to align operations with actual demand, help minimize emissions, and optimized resource use.

Benefits of establishing this best practice: Provides a standardized framework for monitoring and improving supply chain operations, leading to reduced waste, better alignment with sustainability targets, and increased agility.

Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: High

Implementation guidance

Evaluate the adoption of the SCOR model over the organization to generate an aggregated view of your operations, the implemented use cases, and the related technology workloads, considering the six areas of the model: plan, source, make, deliver, return, enable. This would allow your organization to rely on a common model to keep tracking and measuring technology services, use cases and related operations you run and where (location), your performance and emissions your operations generate, while using tags applied to the AWS services in use for straightforward report, export, and aggregated views.

Implementation steps

  1. Adopt the SCOR model or equivalent standardized framework to map and categorize your supply chain operations.

  2. Implement comprehensive tagging strategies for AWS services to enable the tracking by SCOR model areas and Supply Chain network locations.

  3. Establish metrics and monitoring systems to track performance and emissions across all SCOR model areas.

  4. Create aggregated views that show the percentage of operations running in cloud versus on-premises for each supply chain area of the model.

  5. Identify and plan migration strategies for the services corresponding to the on-premises percentage that you would move to the cloud to gain additional sustainability benefits.

  6. Regularly review and update the map of your supply chain to reflect changes you might have applied to your operations, and to get an updated status of where you are towards your sustainability targets.