Adetunji, OlufemiRamotsedisi, M.M.University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering2012-01-272012-01-2720112011http://hdl.handle.net/2263/17894Thesis (B Eng. (Industrial and Systems Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2011.A basic proposition is that benchmarking is a tool or trigger for continuous improvement and that the only reason to undertake benchmarking is to improve upon existing performance in an objective manner (McNair, 1992). Benchmarking allows a company to identify opportunities for improvement and to proactively direct efforts to become the best.68 pagesPDFenCopyright: University of PretoriaMini-dissertations (Industrial and Systems Engineering)Sea FreightValue Stream MappingSupply ChainSCORText