Auditing improvements in a product delivery process (AIPDP)

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 598-618

  Childerhouse, Paul ^a   Thomas, Andrew ^b   Phillips, Gareth ^c   Towill, Denis R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b University of Glamorgan   (United Kingdom)

^c Corus Strip Products ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditing; Business process re engineering; Materials handling; Performance measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955070613     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637151011065937     Document Type: Article

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