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Lean Six Sigma for SMEs: A Path to Continuous Improvement

SCMDOJO

In today’s fiercely competitive business landscape, the quest for continuous improvement has become imperative for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to thrive. In this blog, we’ll delve into the integrated Lean Six Sigma approach, exploring its benefits, deployment models, moreover the implications for SMEs.

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Building the Network of Networks. Call for Action. Want to Help?

Supply Chain Shaman

Companies struggle to make progress in their continuous improvement programs. I was very fortunate to have rich experiences–building and starting up new products, implementing software and driving continuous improvement programs– in established companies across the industry. Today’s supply chain is sick.

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Building the Network of Networks. Call for Action. Want to Help?

Supply Chain Insights

Companies struggle to make progress in their continuous-improvement programs. I was very fortunate to have rich experiences–building and starting up new products, implementing software, and driving continuous improvement programs– in established companies across the industry. I lost the heated debates.

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Palmatier and Crum (2002), Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) and Bob Stahl (2009) all assert that S&OP is first and foremost an executive decision-making process. But it is good to remember that the early pioneers always designed S&OP, the predecessor of IBP, as an executive decision-making forum.

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Palmatier and Crum (2002), Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) and Bob Stahl (2009) all assert that S&OP is first and foremost an executive decision-making process. But it is good to remember that the early pioneers always designed S&OP, the predecessor of IBP, as an executive decision-making forum.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

It is arguably true that supplier performance management is considered a business practice for measuring, analyzing, and managing supplier performance to reduce cost, and risk and also drive continuous improvement. Managing and optimizing a supplier’s performance is as essential as it is difficult.

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Navigating Regulatory Compliance: A Deep Dive Into QMS Compliance for Medical Devices

Arena Solutions

If there are process issues, or opportunities, this is then fed into the quality management system to ensure a continuous improvement of your processes. I think they’ve been Arena customers since 2003. Pulse is a novel bioelectric company that adopted Arena in 2016.