Summary information
Study title
Delivery Performance and Throughput Efficiency in the UK Manufacturing Industry, 1970-1980
Creator
New, C. C., Cranfield School of Management
Sweeney, M. T., Cranfield School of Management
Study number / PID
1833 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-1833-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The purpose of this study was to analyse estimated and actual delivery performance in a sample of companies and identify the causes for a poor delivery performance record when this was identified.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
United Kingdom
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Institutions/organisations
Subnational
Business orders
Engineering firms
Universe
Business sales order and despatch records of engineering firms
Sampling procedure
One-stage stratified or systematic random sample
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1983
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
- Atkin, G. (1981) 'Meeting delivery dates may be easier than you think', Works Management Journal, 83-86
- Sweeny, M. (1980) Delivery performance:: a measure of customer satisfaction and an aid to improve production control [Research report], : BPICS.