Evaluation of Performance Differences between Manufacturing Sites

In order to profit from local differences regarding factor costs, ensure proximity to customers and get access to new markets most of today's manufacturing companies established production sites around the world. Usually the performance of these sites differ significantly. Currently companies are not able to explain and evaluate the performance discrepancies since production sites differ in technological equipment, local framework conditions and other aspects. The inability to evaluate performance differences prevents an efficient and effective improvement of the design of production networks. Therefore the aim of this paper is to develop a method to evaluate performance differences between manufacturing sites.