Organizational readiness for implementation of Supply Chain Analytics

摘要

Supply chains today are amassed with data. To remain competitive in a global economy, supply chain organizations need to constantly derive meaningful information from this plethora of data and make critical business decisions. This process is referred to as Supply Chain Analytics (SCA). This paper attempts to measure the readiness of organizations to implement Business Analytics (BA) - a more generic form of SCA. In this paper, we present a framework to assess the organizational readiness to implement SCA. This framework classifies SCA implementation issues in four board categories - data standardization and integration requirements, infrastructure requirements, technical and non-technical requirements, and organizational culture and strategic requirements. We report the results of a study of 112 respondents in 7 countries from various industries and professional backgrounds.