... 2000 BPR Co‐ordination Supply‐chain management Owing to the recent trends in international procurements, new information technologies, increasing pressure from customers on responsiveness and reliability and the globalization of operations and markets, supply chain management has...

... is a method of decomposing business goals into aggregate business‐specific, manufacturing‐performance indicators. These can be linked to measures of manufacturing performance and directly related to a manufacturing technology or a manufacturing programme. © MCB UP Limited 1997 BPR Competitive...

... be carried out by team members at certain project phase reviews to provide continual feedback about the effects of process changes. © MCB UP Limited 1996 BPR New product development Operational audit Effective NPI processes are an essential element in maintaining competitive advantage...

... was the search for an appropriate benchmark for comparison, as the company had only been in a market economy for three years. Benchmark sales revenue ÷ employee figures were based on the experiences of Western companies in stable situations and were not appropriate to these special circumstances. BPR...

.... Business policy BPR Innovation Inventory control Logistics During the 1980s, many of the world′s leading corporations focused successfully on quality improvement and on heightened customer awareness as strategic differentiators. Today, these well‐established imperatives have been joined...