scprime® is a different sort of benchmarking approach. Applicable to a wide range of businesses, it is designed to drive action; business units can clearly see how they can get better across their whole range of business processes. It is also focused on a company’s strategic objectives; it turns strategy into reality. This can be through process improvement and/or standardisation, cost reduction or simply identifying and fixing weaknesses in the supply chain. In all cases, it can be customised to address the specific business needs.

Having undertaken process benchmarking consistently over the past twenty years, across a multitude of sectors including consumer goods, retail, pharmaceuticals, beverages, aerospace, telecoms, automotive, industrial and utilities, it is clear that some critical elements are required to create real, lasting and useful improvements: there must be a close fit with a company’s specific business objectives and needs; there must be a focus on the improvement path; and, the business must believe the benchmarks and ‘own’ the results.

scprime® is based on these principles. It has supply chain–wide process benchmarks which are modular and can be customised. They are also in roadmap format, showing the path to excellence. It also has other elements, part of the overall framework, which can be packaged into a complete solution to drive improvement in the short, medium and long term.