... of research streams and principles from the supply chain area explicitly address one or more of these elements. Among these streams are: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2001 Agility Supply chain Audit Over the past decade literature has managed to communicate a number of lessons from...

...R. Van Landeghem; K. Persoons Benchmarking Logistics Performance Audit Best practice In Figure 2 we focus on the best practices that influence the performances linked with top objective “flexibility”. We can distinguish three levels of best practices and two levels of performance...

... performance feedback; personal performance feedback; and feedback on the overall process performances. The analysis shows that these dimensions are distinct, thus allowing to deal with them separately both in PMS design and audit. As far as the effectiveness of the performance feedback is concerned...

... systems can be designed and audited. System 1 is the operational units which produce the goods or services. In other words it represents the productive function of the organization. It could be interpreted that system 1 consists of business processes such as order fulfilment, product...

... on the Hayes‐Wheelwright (H‐W) framework. Highlights the operationalization of the H‐W framework as a strategic manufacturing audit tool and applies this tool to the manufacturing operations within a specific industry, namely the electronics industry. Aggregates and reports the results of the strategic...

...K.W. Platts; M.J. Gregory The need to develop manufacturing strategies which are consistent with and supportive of overall business strategies is now widely accepted. A manufacturing audit approach which has been found useful in the process of manufacturing strategy formulation is described. Within...