The Supply Chain Surrounds Every Product

The enterprise sells, its customers order, and the enterprise delivers. This constitutes the basic process of demand fulfilment.  As the enterprise creates demand through marketing & sales, it fulfils it.  The enterprise and the customer agree on the terms and conditions of the latter’s order.  Delivery of the order should arrive at the right place,Continue reading “The Supply Chain Surrounds Every Product”

Rationalising Workmanship

Executives of a dental laboratory asked a consultant fellow of mine to do time studies of their workers.  The consultant and I, however, convinced the executives that we should first do an assessment of their operations. When we presented our report, we recommended that the executives change the layout of their laboratory and focus onContinue reading “Rationalising Workmanship”

How Do We Define Quality?

Quality is a strange subject.  It’s strange because people talk about it a lot especially when they have a complaint or an admiration about a product or service.  At the same time, people don’t seem to take it seriously especially when they settle for a cheaper product or service because they don’t have the budgetContinue reading “How Do We Define Quality?”