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Research on Supply Chain Management Maturity Based-on MICK-4FI Resource Operation Model Daozhi ZHAO, Qiang ZHANG, Jianyong SUN (School of Management, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072) Abstract: Supply Chain Management Maturity (SCM2) is an important index to measure the performance of supply chain management. In this paper, MICK-4FI Resource Operation Model is introduced into the research on SCM2. MICK-4FI Resource Operation Model has an advantage of combining Resources-based View (RBV) and the practice of enterprise. According to MICK-4FI Resource Operation Model, resources belonging to enterprise can be classified as Material(M), Information(I), Capital(C) and Knowledge(K) that are essential for it to gain core competence. Principle of leverage is used to prove that high ability of resource operation can help enterprise lever outside resources that are essential. As a result, competitive advantage of enterprise is advanced. Based on MICK-4FI Resource Operation Model, this paper gives a new concept of SCM2 from the viewing point of resource operation, furthermore a new supply-chain management maturity model (SCM2M) and its evaluating indexes of each maturity stage are also provided. This new SCM2M makes a path, along which enterprise can advance its ability of resource operation, to gain core competence. This SCM2M makes both academic and practical meaning. Key words: supply chain management; supply chain management maturity; Resource Operation; MICK-4FI. Introduction D. Zhao and M. Fang (2002) have given a new definition of supply chain: “Supply Chain is a network composed by many organizations, in which every enterprise integrates material, information, capital and knowledge resources in order to achieve its business goal, to obtain the competitive advantage”, and also pointed that: “Supply chain management is a process of designing and maintaining a kind of excellent manufacturing network structure, mechanism and pattern for integrating resources and leverin