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
