MGT 420 Week 5 Discussion | University of Phoenix | Assignment Help

MGT 420 Week 5 Discussion | University of Phoenix | Assignment Help 

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Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students. 

 

Due Thursday 

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: 

While there are multiple discussion topics the participation rules remain the same. Your response post can be on any one of them and your reply posts can be in response to classmate’s discussions of any of them.

 

Discussion Topic #1 - In Managing Quality: Integrating the Supply Chain, Ch. 15 you learned about the different types of audits. Define the different types of audits. Pick a company and define which type would be best for it. Support your answer.

  

Discussion Topic #2 - This is the right time in the course to discuss the impact that Quality has on the Characteristics of a World Class Supply Chain.

There is no consensus on a single set of characteristics, but I have compiled this list over time from many sources. 

A World Class Supply Chain will: 

a.    Focus on the customer

b.    Recognize quality as a holistic principle

c.    Improve asset efficiency

d.    Treat suppliers as partners not adversaries

e.    Encourage continuous process improvement

f.     Maintain open communications throughout the chain

g.    Support human empowerment as a key component

h.    Treat technological investment as a critical enabler

i.     Use performance measurements as a primary management tool

I believe that you will find it extremely enlightening comment on the quality relationships to each of the characteristics, and to draw a set of connections between each of these characteristics, and the Quality Concepts identified by Deming, Juran, Crosby and other ‘Fathers of Quality Theory’ you can find in http://www.qualitygurus.com/gurus/

You might be impressed by the fact that 21st century World Class organizations are using, every day, the ideas that these men told us about 100 years ago.

 

Due Monday  

Reply to at least two of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses. 

 


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