Articles Tagged with ''supply chain''

Quality giants like Joseph M. Juran, W. Edwards Deming and Armand V. Feigenbaum ushered in the era of total quality management (TQM) movement about seven decades ago.

Some of the most disruptive quality failures in medical manufacturing are not found on the production floor. They are built into the handoff between the supplier and manufacturer early in the process. 

The supply chain has become a vital process contributing to products and services realized by organizations.

A company can be busy, growing, hiring, quoting, producing, shipping, reporting, and still be fundamentally complacent.

Senthilkumar (Senthil) Thiyagarajan, PhD., is a supply chain analytics professional at Medline Industries, specializing in digital twins, supply chain optimization, and Industry 4.0 technologies. 

Manufacturing has entered a new phase in which measurement alone is no longer sufficient. 

It seems unlikely that small businesses will see tariff relief any time soon, given the Trump Administration’s aggressive response to the Supreme Court’s decision, in which he promised to maintain or increase tariffs on importers of foreign goods using other sections of the Trade Act of 1974.

Global supply chains are operating in one of the most turbulent environments in decades.

Optimizing your supply chain management can help your organization to achieve higher cost efficiency by improving product production and distribution. This article outlines how a cloud-based quality management system (QMS) can help.

There’s a pretty shocking disconnect between the actual cost of poor quality (COPQ) and what executive leadership thinks it is.