Why update the VICS CPFR model?
When the VICS CPFR Guidelines were initially published in 1998, they offered a best practices framework for future collaboration efforts. Since then, there have been over 300 actual pilot and production implementations of CPFR involving over 1500 companies. The new model addresses many shortcomings and incorporates innovations based upon real project experiences. The VICS CPFR Committee also sought to address two contrasting goals in this update: to make CPFR simpler and more understandable to business executives, while providing more detailed guidance to implementers than before.
