... for benchmarking efforts in the development of supply chain management courses and curricula in academia, as well as training, development and recruitment efforts by professionals in the field of supply chain management. Benchmarking has long been a staple in commercial industries. Companies compare...

.... The findings are designed to foster information sharing and provide data for benchmarking efforts in the development of SCM courses and curricula in academia, as well as training, development and recruitment efforts by professionals in the field of SCM. Laura Birou can be contacted at: laurabirou@aol.com...

... of continuous improvement in the quality and value of the educational experience. The findings are designed to foster information sharing and provide data for benchmarking efforts in the development of logistics courses and curricula in academia as well as training and development by professionals in the field...

... Comparing SCs of an industry via the proposed method results in process benchmarking, business stage benchmarking and SCs ranking in the scope of supplier's supplier to customer's customer. Originality/value The suggested method provides realistic and attainable information for SCs' owner/managers...

...‐tested on 44 local SMEs. The results were then compared with existing performance benchmark as well as within the benchmarked group itself and a high performing Thai multinational in order to see whether the developed tool could identify performance gaps in the trial group. Findings The results...

... model. The final section summarizes the paper and discusses further research directions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Supplier relations Environmental management Analytical hierarchy process Green marketing Benchmarking Facing various regulatory and community...

... third party logistics market, this paper aims to develop a meaningful set of financial benchmarks that will dictate best practices. In particular, the paper proposes a data envelopment analysis (DEA) that is proven to be useful for measuring the operational efficiency of various profit or non‐profit...

...., 1994). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Benchmarking Supply chain management The situation facing much of industry worldwide is exacerbated because “bullwhip”, as it is now termed following Lee et al. (1997) , tends to be either misunderstood, or ignored (McCullen...

... the introduction of e‐procurement systems and their contribution to the management of indirect goods supply chain. Design/methodology/approach Chooses a two‐part qualitative approach. First, summarizes the results of a benchmarking study that was conducted by a consortium of 12 multinational companies. During...

...Chuda Basnet; Jim Corner; Joel Wisner; Keah‐Choon Tan This paper reports on a benchmarking study carried out on supply chain management (SCM) activities of manufacturing organisations in New Zealand. The purpose of the paper is to report the current state of the play in this area. A postal survey...

.... Despite much publicity, frenzied activity, and benchmarking since Womack et al. (1990) was published, relatively little seems to have happened in the intervening years to actually improve automotive supply chain performance (Oliver and Delbridge, 1999; Mason‐Jones and Towill, 1998). However...

...Remko van Hoek Sandor   Boyson , Thomas M.   Corsi , Martin E.   Dresner and Lisa H.   Harrington . Logistics and the Extended Enterprise: Benchmarks and Best Practices for the Manufacturing Professional . New York, NY : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.   1999 . 230 pp...

... to outsourcing including a value chain perspective, core competency thinking and supply base influences into the decision‐making process. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Outsourcing Value chain Supply chain Benchmarking Core competences One of the key issues to have emerged for many organisations...