A survey and taxonomy of strategy‐related performance measures for manufacturing
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
ISSN: 0144-3577
Article publication date: 1 March 1996
Abstract
Although the topic of manufacturing performance measurement has recently attracted considerable interest, little has been done to enumerate or classify the measures that exist. Lists 125 different strategy‐related measures that were found through a survey of accounting, manufacturing and managerial literature. Develops a taxonomy which categorizes those measures according to competitive priority (cost, quality, flexibility, delivery reliability, or speed), data source (internal or external), data type (objective or subjective), measure reference (self‐referenced or benchmark), and process orientation (process input or process outcome). Finds that the largest number of measures have been proposed for the competitive priority of flexibility and the fewest for delivery reliability. Most measures have focused only on process outcomes using self‐referenced objective data from internal sources. Based on these results, suggests that companies and academic researchers utilize new or different measures to assess adequately strategy‐related manufacturing performance.
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Citation
White, G.P. (1996), "A survey and taxonomy of strategy‐related performance measures for manufacturing", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 42-61. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443579610110486
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1996, MCB UP Limited