Candidate SCOR-Linked Financial Proxies: Exploratory Evidence from a 12-Firm Panel Using SCORE Ratio Analysis of Supply Chain Efficiency

Background: Many SCOR performance measures rely on internal operational data, which limits empirical work using public information. Methods: This study evaluates a small set of publicly auditable, SCOR-linked ratios (SCORE) in a panel of 12 publicly traded firms across four sectors from 2000 to 2022. Using firm- and year-fixed-effects panel models, the paper examines whether these candidate proxies show pre-specified directional associations within firms and whether the same ratios are associated with operating margin in parallel models. Instrumental-variable (IV) specifications are reported only as sensitivity analyses, and nearly all are weak by the paper’s reported first-stage diagnostics. Results: Accordingly, most findings are interpreted as associative rather than causal. After false-discovery-rate adjustment and weak-instrument-robust inference, only four firm–proxy pairs meet the paper’s detection criterion; all remaining estimates are treated as non-robust. Conclusions: The contribution is therefore narrow: this is a constrained exploratory screening exercise showing which candidate mappings survive the paper’s inferential filters in this sample and which do not. The results do not establish a validated cross-industry scorecard, a scalable benchmarking framework, or a basis for policy claims.