MGM375-1403A-02: Quality and Supply Chain Management
MGM375-1403A-02: Quality and Supply Chain Management
Quality Methodologies
Part 1 APA style Due Wednesday by 6 pm
Write 500–700 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments.
The CEO has done quite a bit of reading in some of the major quality improvement programs that are available to both the company and to its vendor base. He asked you to describe how a company would go about picking one that would work best for it. He specifically asked the following questions:
ü What criteria should be used?
ü How would you gather information about each kind of program?
ü How you would monitor whether the implementation was a success?
ü Why do you think there have been a number of these major quality improvement programs over time; in other words, why hasn’t one been accepted as the ideal one?
Part 2 APA style Due by Friday
1100-1300 words
Create an APA style paper, comparing and contrasting any pair from among these formal quality improvement programs: Joseph Juran’s Trilogy program, Edward Deming’s Quality program, Six Sigma, and Philip Crosby’s Quality is free book. Your compare and contrast paper should include the following factors:
Ø The main premise of the program
Ø Key requirements for successful implementation
Ø Initial steps to implement it
Possible References
http://web.mit.edu/tdqm/www/about.shtml
