Business Process Reengineering is necessary to be flexible to adapt to changing global and competitive environment. Reengineering is a fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvement in cost, quality, speed, and service. This paper is devoted to a critical review of existing literature on business process reengineering of manufacturing systems, factors and modeling in order to understand the importance of reengineering.

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