Benchmarking global manufacturing : understanding international suppliers, customers, and competitors / Jeffrey G. Miller, Arnoud De Meyer, Jinichiro Nakane ; with contributions by other members of the Global Manufacturing Futures Project, including Kasra Ferdows ... [et al.]..

By: Miller, Jeffrey G .

Contributor(s): Meyer, Arnoud de | Nakane, Jinʼichirō, 1934-.

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BookSeries: Business One Irwin/APICS series in production management: Publisher: Homewood, Ill. : Business One Irwin, 1992Description: x, 443 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1556236743.Subject(s): Manufactures

DDC classification: 338.4767

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Provides data on the performance, operations, and strategies of over 1,000 manufacturing businesses.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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CHOICE Review

Utilizing the results of a ten-year study, Miller (Boston University), De Meyer (INSEAD), and Nakane (Waseda University) have written this publication to enable manufacturers to measure their organizations against criteria of world-class status. More than half the text contains responses to a questionnaire by more than 1,000 successful manufacturing units in the US, Europe, Japan, and the Pacific Rim countries. Responses are provided by region as well as by major industry: consumer packaged goods, industrial goods, basic industries, machinery, and electronics. Also, responses are broken down by major industry within region. The book contains suggestions for those who wish to test the status of their organization against world-class standards by answering the same questionnaire and comparing their responses to those of the successful firms. The text contains a summary of survey results that would be of interest to nontesting and well as to testing readers. Tables, charts, glossary; no bibliography. This book should be read along with Brian H. Maskell's Performance Measurement for World Class Manufacturing (1991) which takes a different approach to the same problem. Undergraduate through professional collections. W. C. Struning; Seton Hall University