Lean Six Sigma Business Intelligence in Logistics

Conference in February 2010 will look at best practices for performance outsourcing in third party logistics, where speakers share their success stories with improving the customer relationship. ...

... "George will demonstrate how Transplace has incorporated Lean Six Sigma (LSS) practices into its customer relationships, along with the deployment of a business intelligence solution, to continuously identify, analyze and deliver added value. " ...

Via Logistics Viewpoints: 3PL Relationships

Supplier Quality Recognition

GM recognizes 99 suppliers for their performance. Many are repeat performers. ...

... "The award recognizes the significant contributions of GM's suppliers in 2008 as part of the company's global product and performance achievements. The Supplier of the Year program started in 1992, and each year a global team of purchasing, engineering, quality, manufacturing and logistics executives determines the winners. The decisions are based on supplier performance in the areas of quality, service, technology and price. " ...

Via GM: Best Global Suppliers

Lean Manufacturing Diagnostic Tool

Industry association offers lean manufacturing diagnostic to food manufacturers. ...

... "The tool analyses the operations and structure of a company according to the principles of lean manufacturing, an approach to business improvement pioneered by the Japanese automotive industry. It uses simple questionnaires to assess current performance and offer guidance for where improvements could be made. The tool has been developed by Grimsby-based lean training specialists Peter Rowley Ltd, champions of the NSA for Food and Drink Manufacturing’s lean network. " ...

Via National Skills Academy for Food and Drink: Lean Manufacturing Diagnostic Tool

Quality Award for Army Center

Army engineering center is recognized for its Lean Six Sigma achievements with a Malcolm Baldrige Award. ...

... "Rowland said ARDEC had competed in the President's Quality Award process and used that as an incentive for implementing management programs like Total Quality Management and Lean Six Sigma. Donelle Denery, who manages ARDEC's performance excellence programs, said the agency was able to promote new management programs by getting almost total participation from managers. " ...

Via Government Executive: Army Quality

Via ARDEC: Malcolm Baldrige Award: "The Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center here today became the first Department of Defense organization in history selected to receive the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. President George W. Bush and Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez announced ARDEC's selection this morning in a joint news release. "

Six Sigma Performance Program Provides Quality of Service Guarantee

TagSYS and IBM collaborate to support pharmaceutical e-pedigree. TagSys brings Six Sigma quality to the table with guaranteed quality of service. ...

... "TAGSYS will provide customers with the same expertise and architecture used in its Six Sigma Performance Program, a quality-of-service program that guarantees fewer than four failures in one million read opportunities. " ...

Via IBM: IBM and TAGSYS Team on Serialization Pilot Kit for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers

Human Approach to Six Sigma

Gallup has an interesting take on applying Six Sigma to people-centric processes. ...

... "Gallup has developed a powerful new approach to measuring and managing human performance -- HumanSigma. When The Gallup Organization applied Six Sigma principles to sales and service groups at several companies, it learned how much performance variation exists between seemingly similar work groups. " ...

Link: Gallup's Human Sigma

Six Sigma Banking Differentiation

The Fools discuss a banking gem that differentiates itself in the marketplace and through its performance using Six Sigma. ...

... "But a clear strategy in the rural markets isn't all that HDFC is doing to differentiate itself in the Indian banking sector. The company also launched its own Six Sigma initiative in 2003. " ...

Via Motley Fool: Market Opportunity

Sustaining Lean Six Sigma Achievements

Integrated enterprise excellence is a method for sustaining Lean Six Sigma performance levels. ...

... "Lean Six Sigma has provided some relief and helped many businesses make significant performance improvements. Yet in many businesses, results of the first few implementations are impressive, usually because the goals were easily achievable ... " ...

Via Quality Management: Sustaining Excellence

LeanSixSigma Performance Excellence Journey

F3 affirms its committment to providing quality service and products through Lean Six Sigma. ...

... "By achieving this registration, F3 has embarked on a performance excellence journey that includes methodologies such as external benchmarking and Lean Six Sigma deployment. This long-term perspective is going to uniquely position them in the future. " ...

F3 Quality Commitment