How Not to Implement Six Sigma - Your problem is : how can you get through the next few months or (God forbid) years until this Six Sigma nonsense blows over? Worry no more! This book will give you the knowledge, tools and insights you need to guarantee the failure of Six Sigma in your organisation. We know this is a big claim, but believe us, many companies have tested and proven these can't-miss ideas.

 

So relax! We guarantee that just a few pages into this book and you will be making decisions that will severely cripple this Six Sigma "thing". After that,you'll be able to sit back and smile as they all come crawling back to your office, asking for forgiveness and pleading with you for the real solution to the company's problems (which of course, you already have-you've just been waiting for the right moment to whip it out and be the hero that you deserve to be, right?).

 

Norm Friberg and Elaine Kowansky take you on a tongue-in-cheek romp through the world of the Six Sigma saboteur. Careful, there may be one lurking in your organisation!

 

 

Lean Six Sigma for Supply Chain Management - Written by a Master Black Belt/educator and neatly condensed into a 10 step process, this book teaches business managers how to apply the tenets of Lean operations (from the Toyota Production System) and Six Sigma management principles to Supply Chain Management.

 

The tools, methods and concepts presented in the book provide a concise Lean Six Sigma supply chain reference for champions, managers, black belts, green belts, lean experts as well as supply chain professionals. Jim Martin includes more than 200 tables and figures describing roadmap's, critical success characteristics as well as specific information necessary to fully integrate Lean Six Sigma concepts within your supply chain.

 

It provides, in one place, concise information to major supply chain systems such as master production scheduling (MPS), materials requirements planning (MRPII), inventory systems, forecasting systems and logistics .Practical examples of Lean Six Sigma applications for supply chain management are provided throughout the book including a detailed discussion of strategies to improve asset utilization and reduce inventory investment.

 

 

Operational Excellence - This is a practical and hands-on reference written for people who need a concise and practical source of information to improve their manufacturing or service operations anywhere in the world. The twenty chapters comprising this book contain more than 450 figures, tables and roadmap's covering a range of practical topics from translating the Voice of Customer (VOC), through product and process design including Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), product forecasting, Lean methodology, financial and productivity analysis, capacity management, process scheduling, inventory control, supply chain design, quality system design including Six Sigma, conducting operational assessments, project management as well as the deployment of technology
across the world.

 

Understanding these topics will help ensure an organisation's operational systems meet customer needs and expectations. Each of the twenty chapters contains checklists and evaluation tools to help an organisation to measure its competitiveness level to identify areas for operational improvement relative to the topics of the chapter. Integrated throughout the book are practical examples using Minitab and Excel. Also, included is a brief discussion of Crystal Ball and similar software packages.

 

For organisation's seeking a source for improving manufacturing and service operations, this book effectively delivers. As organisations understand the interrelationships of global supply chains, their operational systems will excel at meeting or exceeding customer expectations in this age of
globalisation.