“…Currently available QRM literature mostly covers the description and development of QRM's principles, e.g., Suri (2014) and Suri (1998Suri ( , 2010a, and case studies on its implementation, e.g., Fernandes et al (2012), Veloso Saes and Godinho Filho (2011), and the POLCA (Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization) system implementation, e.g., Chinet and Godinho Filho (2014), Fernandes and do Carmo-Silva (2006), Germs and Riezebos (2010), Krishnamurthy and Suri (2009), Suri (1998), and Vandaele et al (2008). Godinho Filho and Veloso Saes (2013), through a review of literature on reducing lead time within the context of Time-Based Competition and QRM, concluded that much of the literature on the subject is quite limited with regard to practical studies, with some little exception (for example Vandaele et al, 2008).…”