Chapter 9 Measuring Performance

176The figures for cash-to-cash cycle times come from George Taninecz, “Forging the Chain,” Industry Week, May 15, 2000.
185The number of inventory turns for Lear comes from David Ross, Competing Through Supply Chain Management: Creating Market-Winning Strategies Through Supply Chain Partnerships, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, page 220.
186The study of the automotive industry in England can be found in David Taylor and David Brunt, Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain Management: The LEAN Approach, Thompson Learning, 2001, page 133. (Not the same David Taylor who wrote this manager's guide.)
191The source for Caterpillar sending out 90,000 questionnaires per year is Donald V. Fites, ...

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