Supply chain improvement benchmarking

Business process benchmarking and the selection of best practices are identified as the tools for supply chain improvement. The SCOR model provides a list of best-in-class practices for each process element. However, SCOR best-in-class practices are generic lists. A best practice that has a significant effect on the performance of a certain... 

The goal of the LCA is to understand the impact of the existing fluid milk supply chain on energy usage and GHG emissions, as well as the other impact categories provided that data are available, and to use the information as a roadmap for improvements to the process. The LCA also provides an environmental benchmark to identify points where improvements to the fluid milk supply chain may be made. 

The remainder of this chapter focusses on attributional LCA, which has been most commonly applied for sheep and wool systems, often to provide benchmarking results for a given system or product and to identify hotspots of environmental impacts in wool supply chains. ALCA avoids the need for some of the sensitive assumptions of CLCA (Finnveden et al., 2009) and is supported by recent development of specific guidelines to improve the consistency of application to wool apparel and textiles (LEAP, 2014a BSI, 2014). However, the inherent limitations associated with ALCA that constrain the applicability of results for predicting the influence of a change in supply and demand should be noted. 

The general benefits of the efforts in supply chain management have included a professional upgrading of the supplier relationships, improved field work productivity, and the assurance that services are measured and benchmarked. Specific benefits include the following ... 

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