Chapter 12:
Total Quality Management (TQM)
and Purchasing
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Content
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Basics of TQM
Statistical process control
(SPC)
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Quality awards
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Other quality related activities
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Total Quality Management (TQM)
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TQM
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A continuous improvement process
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Beyond the traditional quality view
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The entire organization works as a team
Purchasing is a critical process of total quality
management
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Need highquality raw materials or component parts from
suppliers
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Traditional vs. TQM
Organizations
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Traditional view of quality
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Looks only at the quality of the final product or services
TQM view of quality
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Looks at the quality of every aspect of the process that produces
the product or service
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TQM and Supply Chain
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Supply chain TQM can lead to a competitive advantage
for the supply chain as well as the members
To be effective, buying organizations must:
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Select suppliers with a TQM philosophy
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Replace suppliers that ignore the TQM
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Investigate customer requirements
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Include suppliers in the new product development process
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TQM Implementation Failures
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Factors associated to failures:
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Lack of a quality focus throughout the supply chain
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Lack of a sense of urgency for change throughout the buying
organization
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Lack of a strategic plan for change
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Lack of a customer or supplier focus
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Lack of positive communications throughout the buying
organization
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Lack of the buying organization’s employees’ integration and
involvement
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Lack of longterm view
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Quality Requirements for Suppliers
Convey quality expectations
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Suppliers’ quality assurance systems must be consistent with the
inhouse quality requirements of the customer
Specify the agreedupon quality targets in detail
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PPM target agreement
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Field failure and reliability requirements
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Warranty agreement
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Urgency to solve problems
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Manufacturing Process Control
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The traditional approach
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Reactive and expensive
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Select production samples and examine for defectives
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Either rework or scrap defectives
TQM approach
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Statistical Process Control (SPC)
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Six Sigma
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Taguchi Method
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Statistical Process Control
(SPC)
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Samples of incoming materials are checked if they lie
within control/specification limits
The control charts:
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Sample mean (Xbar) chart
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Sample mean is plotted
Sample range (R) chart
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Range of the sample is plotted
Over time, the samples are analyzed to detect trends that
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may predict the disposition of the process
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Statistical Process Control
(SPC) (cont.)
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Specification
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A description of the required output, including specific
characteristics
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e.g., weights and measurements
Flexibility in specifications
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The upper control limit (UCL)
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The lower control limit (LCL)
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SPC and Control Limits
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SPC is used to detect when the process is (becoming)
out of control
Control Limits
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Set to determine the probability of the units within the incoming
materials falling within the control limits
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Example:
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With the control limits set as plus and minus two standard
deviations away from the mean…
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95% of units fall between the control limits
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SPC Chart Examples
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Xbar chart
example
Upper
Control
Limit
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Lower
Control
Limit
R chart
example
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Six sigma
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A way to measure supplier quality
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Control the process so that only 1 out of a million fall out of the
control limits
Sixsigma suppliers focus on:
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Defects per million as a standard metric
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Extensive employee training
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The reduction of nonvalueadded activities
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Taguchi Method
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Characteristics:
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Complex and can be difficult to implement
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Short term: increases overhead without offering benefits that can
immediately be quantified
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Long term: gives the firm strong competitive advantage
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Quality Awards
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The Deming Award
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The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
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ISO 9000
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Quality Awards (cont.)
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The Deming Award
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Named for the quality guru Dr. W. Edwards Deming
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2 types of awards: The Deming Prize, The Deming Application
Prize
The Deming Prize
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Given to a person or group of people who have advanced the
practice and furthered awareness of TQC
The Deming Application Prize
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Given to companies based on successes attributable to
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Quality Awards (cont.)
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ISO 9000
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Standards originated in manufacturing used to certify a variety of
organizations and business concerns
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ISO 9001
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A set of standards that document the implementation of a quality
program
In order to be certified, suppliers need to provide documentation
to an external examiner that they meet the ISO 9001 requirements
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Questions?
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