Internal benchmarking for assessment of supply chain performance

Benchmarking

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-76

  Soni, Gunjan ^a   Kodali, Rambabu ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Performance measures; Supply chain management; SWOT analysis; Value analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950541213     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635771011022316     Document Type: Article

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