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Six-Sigma for Small and Mid-Sized Organizations

Six-Sigma for Small and Mid-Sized Organizations, provides an innovative deployment model called Scaleable Six Sigma™ that enables smaller and mid-sized organizations to implement Six Sigma at a pace where they can actually digest the methodology and achieve benefits quickly. Further, these organizations can deploy Six Sigma without the significant resource commitment and overhead structure of the traditional top-down Six Sigma implementation approach.

Finally there is a way for smaller organizations to respond to the Six Sigma requests from their larger customers without jeopardizing customer service or financial results. This book provides real-life examples and case studies of Scaleable Six Sigma™ and the deployment experiences of several smaller and mid-sized companies.

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The Lean Extended Enterprise

The Lean Extended Enterprise, provides executives, managers and educators with a comprehensive implementation plan for implementing enterprise wide lean. It illustrates how to integrate Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and other enabling IT applications into a total business improvement initiative, beyond the four walls of an organization.

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Supplier Evaluation and Performance Excellence:
A GUIDE TO MEANINGFUL METRICS AND SUCCESSFUL RESULTS

By: Sherry R. Gordon

Understanding supplier performance is vital to ensuring a well-functioning supply network. Supplier Evaluation and Performance Excellence will help you develop and implement an evaluation process that can reduce costs, lower risk, and improve both the performance of your company and your suppliers. Finally, there is a practical guide to managing and improving supplier performance that fills a much-needed gap in the literature

Key Features:

  • Details the business case for supplier evaluation; where to start; what to measure; how to develop an evaluation process; strategies and approaches to supplier evaluation; and how to get from performance measurement to performance improvement

  • Helps you categorize your supply base to determine which suppliers to focus performance measurement on and what types of performance measurement is appropriate for different categories of suppliers

  • Outlines a process for developing a supplier evaluation program from overall strategy to execution

  • Discusses how to get from evaluation to action and presents supplier development approaches with examples of successful productive measurement strategies

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