Six Sigma Certification – Suppliers and Warehousing Improvements

Shipping Departments often have many issues with incoming and outgoing shipments.  You might think you have a process that works at your company, but there are most likely issues slowing productivity down and causing problems.  Six Sigma certification can help you take a look at your overall shipping processes and procedures and find new ways to improve everything you do.  You will be able to identify problems, ways to reduce costs, and ways to perform daily functions more efficiently.  Six Sigma training can help you completely overhaul a shipping and receiving warehouse.Inventory must be kept track of in a warehouse.  Inventory issues might include running out of products and having to wait for a supplier to send more.  There may seem like you are always playing...

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Six Sigma Training for IT Departments

The IT Department at a company is often the one with the highest of budgets and with good reason. The IT Department tends to replace equipment more often than they do repair it, and software goes out of date so quickly (as well as computers and other equipment). Rather than spend money to upgrade existing machines, most IT Departments find it easier and less time-consuming to just purchase the newest models. While there is some validity in this “replace it” philosophy, Six Sigma training can help teach employees in the IT Department ways to approach this philosophy more frugally.  Rather than making what can be considered unnecessary purchases, employees will learn to make due with the resources they have available. Overhead is greatly reduced with this shift in thinking.  With...

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Six Sigma Tools for The Business Owner

In Six Sigma, Black and Green Belts will use several different methods in order to improve quality within the DMAIC model. They are usually incorporated into the software that is used by the business owner in order to make it easier for them. Six Sigma tools enable teams to analyze data effectively and design efficient workflows.One important Six Sigma tool is the quality function deployment method or QFD. This method is used to gain knowledge about the requirements of the customer, attempting to meet their needs to a satisfactory level. The deployment part of this method is from earlier times when a face to face meeting was required. In these instances, a quality control researcher would visit the site of the problem to gain knowledge about what they need to make them satisfied.Diagrams...

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