Supply chain management maturity model

A five-level model that can be used to evaluate where a company is in the handling of supply chain management has been developed. Each of the levels describes different customer-supplier situations. 1 am suggesting a 

Level one. Individual compaity s departments functioning independently with no or very little interaction with customers or suppliers. This is a siloed compare. 

Level two. Irrterrtal compare integration of departmerrts. The organization is fimctiorting as a rmit irrstead of siloed departmerrts. 

Level three. One level of integration. Relationships are being built with either customers or suppliers and the companies are working together for the corrrmon good of both organizations. 

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Where is your company on the supply chain management maturity model Why are they at this level ... 

Montcrief, Bob and Stonich, Mark, Supply-chain practice maturity model and performance assessment, a presentation by the Performance Management Group (PMG) and PittigUo Rabin Todd and McGrath (PRTM), November... 

Anna Baraniecka is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Wroclaw University of Economics (WUE), where she received her PhD in Business Logistics. She has extensive experience in supply chain management in the pharmaceutical industry as she has engaged in numerous consulting projects in the field. One of her most important research topics is Efficient Consumer Response (ECR). She has been interested in supply chain maturity issues for several years. She is co-author of a novel supply chain maturity model tailored to the pharmaceutical industry. 

Ayers (2004) framework for describing the integration of a supply chain project into a corporation s structure is presented, which itself applied the project management maturity model (PMMM) developed by Kerzner (2001). 

Fruit Industry Supply Chains (FISC) are interconnected networks conformed by production nodes (farms), processing plants (fruit packaging and concentrated juice plants), and storage facilities, along with clients and third party raw material and services suppliers. Although Supply Chain optimization is a mature field, very few contributions on FISC modeling with management purposes have appeared so far in the open literature. 

In this section, it will be performed a literature review for each one of the six categories of Product Lifecycle management - New Product Forecast, Supply chain Approach for New Product, Risk Assessment and Management, Product Tracking Visibility, Portfolio Optimization, Senior Management Support. This review allowed identify the DDSC characteristics for each category which was used to develop the five level maturity model. 

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