Hospital supply chain benchmarking as an art and science hit its peak in the 1980s when Robert C. Camp published his book Benchmarking: The Search for Industry Best Practices That Lead To Superior Performance. Camp explained in simple terms that benchmarking is the “process of consistently researching for new ideas for methods, practices, and processes, and of either adopting the practices or adopting the good features, and implementing them to obtain the best of the best…(results).”