Purpose – To investigate implementation of benchmarking (BM) in three hospital trusts by adapting receptive context of …

Purpose – To provide the basis for the development of a specific benchmarking methodology for the foundry industry … specially designed for the foundry companies); and conducting a pilot benchmarking exercise in order to validate the model. Both … the benchmarking partners group. Make available a specific benchmarking model for assessing the foudries' performance …

analysis. Findings – Benchmarking performance indicators are essentially finding the representative indicator from the existing …

Purpose – Recently, benchmarking has become a common approach to optimize production processes by comparing certain … aspects of a company with its competitors. However, one of the biggest challenges is not only to define suitable benchmarking … successfully used functional benchmarking methodology for production performance of small and medium batch size processes, that is …

; objectivity in identification of processes and practices; and make a distinction between essence and logistics of benchmarking …. Findings – For any benchmarking exercise the most important job is objectivity in identification of processes and practices …. This leaves a wide scope for application of benchmarking methodology. The dynamics of networks like NIS being different …

when performing benchmarking gap analysis. Design/methodology/approach – MAUT is selected to identify the overall best … benchmarking analysis is conducted on 14 industry warehouse participants to determine industry best practices for the four critical … advantageous in its ability to consider all critical metrics in a benchmarking study. The MAUT approach allows the assignment of …

Filling” processes within BASF. A benchmarking project is described in detail which aimed to cover sites in different … options for their implementation. Design/methodology/approach – The project used an adaptation of accepted benchmarking …/implications – The exercise was challenged by the selection of suitably similar benchmarking candidates because the environment was …

operated under a supply chain benchmarking framework. Acting as a monitoring tool for evaluating the performance of maintenance … benchmarking approach in maintenance logistics activities. Design/methodology/approach – A six tiers collaborative management model …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to redress the imbalances in the past literature of supply chain benchmarking … and enhance data envelopment analysis (DEA) modeling approach in supply chain benchmarking. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper is sorted into sections: benchmarking, definitions, concepts and literature survey, supply chain benchmarking …

/methodology/approach – Desk research was carried out in order to develop the research model. Competitive benchmarking with a group of broiler … financial performance. Findings – Supply chain benchmarking is more than a comparative analysis of cost structure, indeed it can … be argued that if not effectively implemented, benchmarking techniques can focus too much on historic data rather than …