MGT 420 ENTIRE COURSE

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MGT 420 ENTIRE COURSE
 
 
MGT 420 Week 1 Individual Assignment Role of Stakeholder Paper
 
Prepare a 350- to 700-word paper in which you explain the role of stakeholders in implementing a quality management process.
Discuss each of the stakeholders and their specific roles in implementing a quality management process.
Provide two organizations as examples to support your answer.
 
MGT 420 Week 1 DQS 
 
DQ 1
 
Why is quality management so important in the supply chain? What may happen to the supply chain if the quality management approach is not implemented correctly? What are the consequences of the faulty implementation of a quality management approach?
 
 
DQ 2
 
In a global market, source venders – or stakeholders – may or may not have quality control enforcement that meets the standards of the country producing the product. What are some approaches to control quality across the global supply chain? What are some implications or consequences of not properly controlling the quality of raw materials and components in the supply chain? Provide examples to support your answer.
 
 
 
MGT 420 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Part 1: BJB Manufacturing Company Quality Management Initiative Proposal  
 
Prepare a total quality management program for BJB Manufacturing Company by writing a 700-to 1,050-word paper in which you develop a quality management approach for BJB. Address the following:
 
Determine what needs the stakeholders may have for BJB’s products.
 
Analyze the product and needs of BJB, and then select the quality management approach that would be the best fit. Explain your rationale.
 
Describe the role of leadership in planning, developing, and implementing a quality process in BJB.
 
MGT 420 Week 2 DQS 
 
DQ 1
 
         What are the distinguishing elements of a customer-driven quality requirement? What elements are unique to a customer-driven quality requirement? Why is interfacing between the provider and the customer so critical in the successful implementation in customer-driven quality requirements?
 
 
DQ 2
 
         How does one evaluate the characteristics of a quality tangible product? How important would reliability and dependability factor into your evaluation?
 
 
MGT 420 Week 3 Individual Assignment Theory Matrix
 
Complete the Theory Matrix available on the student website, which examines the quality theory’s major concepts, the process of the theory, process-driven and customer-driven quality requirements and an example of a company that has applied that particular theory.
 
MGT 420 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment 
 
Continue building your proposal by adding 700-to 1,050-words that includes the following:
 
Select one of the theories that you feel would be the best fit for BJB and the successful implementation of this particular project.
Address how these quality theories and process-driven and customer-driven quality requirements apply to both the manufacturing and service industries.
 
MGT 420 Week 3 DQS 
 
DQ 1
 
         Is customer input important in developing quality measurement criteria? Does determining the customers needs create a positive result? Why?
 
DQ 2
 
         Would completing a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis be advantageous when deploying a quality process? How do identification and correction of internal weaknesses result in a more successful deployment of the quality process?
 
 
MGT 420 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment BJB Manufacturing Company Quality Program Proposal Part I to III Presentation
 
Prepare 12 to 15 Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides of Part I-III of the BJB Total Quality Management Program proposal your team developed.
 
MGT 420 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Part II & III: BJB Manufacturing Company Quality Management Implementation Strategy
 
Continue building your proposal for BJB’s Strategic Planning Committee by adding 1,050-to 1,750-words outlining the strategies for addressing quality management issues and determining an effective means of deploying the quality management initiative.
 
Analyze factors that should be considered when measuring the results of quality initiatives by using the quality initiative the Learning Team selected to be the best fit for BJB. Address the leadership’s roles in successfully deploying an initiative. Then determine how this approach would help enhance the accomplishment of the following:
 
Reduction of the number of product failures
Material and labor costs due to gains in operational efficiencies
Profitability
Customer complaints management
Environmental regulations compliance
Reduction of the number of damage claims and service reliability in the supply chain
Levels of inventory
Inventory damage and shrinkage management
Communications, cooperation, and coordination between all departments within the company improvement
 
MGT 420 Week 4 DQS 
 
DQ 1
 
         After qualification of the vendor, at what point do you initiate a performance review? Does it make a difference if you measure their performance at the middle of the cycle or at the end? Why?
 
 
DQ 2
 
         What are some areas of a company adversely affected when switching suppliers? How would altering suppliers affect the different areas of a manufacturing company? How would it affect the different areas of a service company?
 
 
 
MGT 420 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Part IV: BJB Manufacturing Company Quality Management Supplier Alliance Metrics Report
 
Prepare a 1,050-to 1,400-word report in which you determine supplier alliance requirements and appropriate metrics for BJB to measure the performance effectiveness of their suppliers. What recommendations would you present to BJB’s Strategic Planning Committee to integrate the supplier alliance and metrics?
 
Address the following:
 
Determine KPIs for forming supplier alliances as well as how BJB would evaluate supplier qualifications and performance.
How do these measurements help ensure a competitive advantage for BJB?
Analyze the types of costs of changing supplier alliances.
Compile Parts I-IV of the BJB Total Quality Management Program proposal together and submit it to your facilitator
 
MGT 420 Week 5  Individual Assignment Quality Management Organizations
 
Prepare a 350-to 700-word paper in which you research at least two quality management organizations--one national and one local--that would positively enhance the implementation of a quality program.
 
Identify the organizations you have researched and describe how the organizations help companies to improve the quality management.
 
Evaluate the effect that participation in these organizations would have on quality performance for an organization.