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Dimensions

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Work in progress, this is just the results of an initial brainstorm session, needs to be worked out

  1. Are all your supply chains, internal and external, identified and described?
    • Are standards used for identifiers (and all other data) across the ecosystem of the supply chain?
  2. Data Integration: How many of them are tied to business capabilities?
    • Are all concepts around products, services, contracts, deliveries, distribution defined with machine-readable shared, standard semantics?
  3. Risk: Did you define your risk-exposure associated with your supply chain?
    • Do you have a risk assessment for every vendor?
    • Do you have a risk assessment for any third party in your supply chain?
    • As an example risk: is your cybersecurity assessment done for all parties in your supply chain?
    • Same for data protection/privacy
  4. Does every line of business manager understand who their vendors are?
  5. How well do you understand (and how well is that defined), the products and services in your supply chain?
  6. How well is your supply chain optimized in relation to other supply chains of other lines of business?
  7. Are all products and services in your supply chain covered through their whole life-cycle? Birth-to-death? / Cradle-to-Cradle?
    • (Cradle to cradle is a sustainable business strategy that mimics the regenerative cycle of nature in which waste is reused. In nature, when a tree or animal dies or creates waste, that waste breaks down and becomes nutrients for another process.)
  8. Is any of the above automated and/or modeled?
  9. Is all data related to your value chain shared across all other relevant lines of business?
    • Do you share vendors, distributors etc
    • Risk analysis on your vendors (financially stable, quality, backup vendor etc, how dependent is your LOB on any given vendor, vendor lock-in)
  10. Are all contracts digitized?
    • Are they registered in a distributed immutable ledger that’s not controlled by a single party?
    • Distributed
    • Transparent
  11. How standard is your supply chain, is it using shared practices and concepts across the industry?