Supply Chain Visions believes in sharing supply chain management knowledge through the development and publication of industry standards and “how to” guides.  We work closely with trade groups that have a strong foundation of education and knowledge. 

Contact Us for more information regarding published industry process standards and guides authored by Supply Chain Visions.

We wrote the book on Supply Chain Management Process Standards – all six of them, actually. Supply Chain Management Process Standards is the first set of comprehensive reference guides containing general guidelines to help you self-assess your current processes. You'll use these tools to identify process strengths and weaknesses…and be able to focus your attention on areas where improvement efforts will drive the most benefit.

Process Standards from CSCMP
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Supply Chain Visions authored the Warehouse Education Resource Council (WERC); Warehouse Manager's Guide to Benchmarking.

Unleash the power of benchmarking.

As competition grows for dollars, time and resources, the demand to improve performance takes on greaterimportance. WERC developed this Guide to Benchmarking to help you unleash the power of benchmarking for your organization. You'll read about the different kinds of benchmarking, why it's important to benchmark, how to choose the right metrics, how to analyze your company's performance, and techniques for communicating to get the results you need. Perhaps most importantly, you'll learn how to develop a benchmarking strategy specifically for your operation.

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Supply Chain Visions authored the Warehouse Education Resource Council (WERC); Warehousing and Fulfillment Process Benchmark and Best Practices Guide.

This workbook was developed for WERC so that warehouse practitioners can learn more about qualitative warehousing best practices. The workbook allows warehouse practitioners to identify process strengths and weaknesses in their organization so they can craft a roadmap for improvement efforts. The workbook is a companion to the Warehouse Manager's Guide to Benchmarking and covers these topics:

1. Receiving & Inspection

2. Material Handling & Put-away

3. Slotting

4. Storage and Inventory Control

5. Picking & Packing

6. Load Consolidation & Shipping

7. Shipment Documentation

8. Warehouse Management System (WMS)

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Supply Chain Visions is the lead researcher for DC Measures, published by WERC. The series of annual metrics studies conducted by WERC and DC Velocity magazine, the research is done in partnership with Georgia Southern University and Supply Chain Visions.

Benchmark your key measures by industry and type of business.

The study captures 45 key operational metrics reporting actual levels of performance from 975 respondents. The measures have been grouped into 5 balanced sets (customer, operational, Financial, capacity / quality and employee), plus 2 sets related to perfect order and cash-to-cash cycle measurement.

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And we provide the glossary of logistics terms and definitions for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and Forbes.com, too.

The Glossary of Supply Chain Terms
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Click here to use the Forbes.com interactive version.