How will SCM integration strategies change through 2005?
The following Strategic Planning Assumptions address the Key Issues: • By 2004, 90 percent of enterprises that fail to apply SCM technology and processes to increase their agility will lose their status as preferred suppliers (0.8 probability). • Through 2005, the Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment Committee and other standards bodies will fail to produce a cross-industry, unifying collaborative standard because alternative standards will arise that will allow for more-specialized types of collaboration (0.8 probability). • Optimizing finances, not operations, will distinguish best-in-class SCM systems through 2005 (0.9 probability). • Through 2002, enterprises that fail to model their supply chains accurately and to give the sales organization access to capable-to-promise (CTP) information will lose 15 percent of potential profits from transactions because they will promise their customers too little or too much (0.7 probability). • By 2003, the role of a transporta
