Linkages between Manufacturing Strategy, Benchmarking, Performance Measurement and Business Process Reengineering

An empirical analysis is presented for researching linkages between manufacturing strategy, benchmark- ing, performance measurement (PM) and business process reengineering (BPR). Although the importance of these linkages has been described in conceptual literature, it has not been widely demonstrated empir- ically. The survey research was carried out in 73 medium and large-sized Slovenian manufacturing com- panies within the mechanical, electro-mechanical and electronic industries. The resulting data were subjected to reliability and validity analyses. Canonical correlation analysis was used to test six hypoth- eses. The results confirmed the need for a strategically-driven BPR approach and the positive impact of per- formance measurement on BPR performance.