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Why measure supply chain efficiency?
In today’s tough economic times, minimizing operating costs and reducing working capital requirements take on new urgency, while enhanced reliability and responsiveness continue to be just as important as ever. The charts below illustrate the impact of measuring supply chain efficiency for distributors and manufacturers.
NAED Streamlines Supply Chain Evaluations
Distributors and Manufacturers Work Together to Improve Evaluation
Process, Reduce Costs, and Provide More Value to End-Customers
What gets measured, gets done! The use of an industry-wide supply chain scorecard for evaluating service levels will help to make processes more efficient, lower the cost of doing business together, and deliver more value to customers.
The NAED Supply Chain Scorecard is an industry initiative to create a sustainable competitive advantage for the electrical distribution channel. If your company already measures channel partner performance, you can reap additional benefits by using the definitions in the Recommended Industry Vocabulary. If your company has yet to measure channel partner performance, what are you waiting for?
Learn more about the Supply Chain Scorecard
This 3-minute video explains what the Scorecard is and how to use it in your business -- Check Out the Video
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Click here to view the tools available for download, including recommended definitions, recommended best practices, and recommended scorecards.
Have questions, comments, or need more information?
email NAED's Customer Service at customerservice@naed.org, or call 888-791-2512.
NAED Supply Chain Scorecard Regional Conference Presentations
NAED promoted the bottom-line results (and rewards) of measuring Supply Chain performance through a series of panel discussions at the 2008-9 Regional Conferences. During these presentations, executives from Crescent Electric Supply, Springfield Electric Supply, Stoneway Electric Supply, Hoffman, Juno Lighting Group, LeGrand, Philips Lighting Electronics, and Square D shared how they have customized the scorecard and used it in their businesses to drive process efficiencies, reduce costs, improve communications (and relationships) with channel partners while at the same time delivering more value to end-customers.
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NAED’s Supply Chain Scorecard Tools
NAED’s Supply Chain Scorecard Software Integration Status
The Task Force continues to work with leading industry software providers to incorporate the Supply Chain Scorecard into standard software releases.
| Software Vendor |
Integration Status |
| Activant Eclipse |
5 measures included in Eterm Release 8.09 and Solar Release 8.62 (Both currently available); 5 additional measures in Eterm and Solar Release 8.65, with trending included in Solar Release 8.65. |
| Activant Prophet 21 |
To be scheduled |
| Infor |
Infor ERP SX.e will support Supply Chain Scorecard functionality in conjunction with the availability of Infor MyDay. MyDay is scheduled to move into limited availability in June 2009 with the GA date TBD. SX.e customers will have access to a Supply Chain Scorecard via a view within MyDay by mid to late summer 2009. Functionality continues to be available for existing versions now through the SX.intelligence Dashboard as an optional report. |
Don’t see your software vendor listed above? Email NAED's Customer Service at customerservice@naed.org or call 888-791-2512 to see what you can do get your software vendor to integrate the Supply Chain Scorecard into standard software releases.
History of NAED’s Supply Chain Scorecard
In March 2005, NAED's Sales & Marketing Committee suggested that NAED develop an industry-wide scorecard to make the process of evaluating supply chain performance more efficient. In response, NAED recruited volunteers from distributors and manufacturers who were passionate about making the supply chain more efficient. Both distributors and manufacturers recognized a common goal of driving process efficiencies and improving performance to take costs out of the channel by lowering the costs of doing business together while delivering more value to the end-customer.
The task forces met multiple times via conference call and once face-to-face to analyze the various issues involved and consider recommendations that would simplify the supply chain evaluation process. The Recommended Industry Vocabulary Recommended Best Practices and Recommended Supply Chain Scorecards were introduced in April 2006 for a 60-day industry commentary period. The feedback received was reviewed by the task forces and incorporated into both documents, which were last updated February 14, 2008.
What You Can Do
Use the Scorecard in Your Business!!!
The Recommended Supply Chain Scorecard is an NAED initiative to create a sustainable competitive advantage for the electrical distribution channel.
Click here to view a list of distributors and manufacturers who have declared their support of the supply chain scorecard effort.
Affiliated Distributors (AD), EDN/Equity, and IMARK also support the supply chain scorecard.
Don’t see your company listed?
Click here to download an implementation form. Then fax a completed form to NAED @ 1.877.312.9801.
PowerPoint ® Presentations about NAED’s Supply Chain Scorecard
NOTE: The webinars on NAED’s Supply Chain Scorecard conducted in 2008 have been converted to NAED Learning Center Courses. To access these courses, log on at www.naedlearningcenter.org and search the Course Catalog for NAED Supply Chain Scorecard.
Articles in TED Magazine about NAED’s Supply Chain Scorecard
Need more information or have questions about NAED’s recommended Supply Chain Scorecard? email NAED's Customer Service at customerservice@naed.org, or call 888-791-2512.
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