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How does six sigma Green belt certification help professionals?   Seven Steps academy is offering Lean  Six Sigma certification  training on behalf of American Society of Quality – ASQ South Asia.   American Society for Quality (ASQ) is a worldwide globally recognized body, which has more than 85000 Quality professionals as members, who are experts from a wide spectrum of industries, educational institutions, medical colleges and hospitals etc., related to quality. A Certification from  ASQ  is considered a mark of quality excellence and is recognized by more than 125 organizations worldwide. It helps in the advancement of professional development, builds credibility and recognition among peers as a part of the global community. A certification helps in career advancement and significantly helps the professional improve organizations bottom line through effective application of quality tools and methods. For operational managers who hav...

How to implement Kanban and supermarket system for Inventory optimisation (Case study) ABC company is a home interior products manufacturing company located in Bangalore Company produces for around 40 clients) in a month Types of furniture manufactured are wardrobes, kitchen cabinets, TV cabinets etc. Study was done to streamline material procurement, storage, issue procedure & inventory management Number of vendors – Raw material ~ 25, Hardware~10 Lead time – imports ~ 4 weeks, local ~ 1 week Total inventory was around Rs. 60 lakhs Major operations are: Head office Client interaction & Design Approval from client BOQ (Bill of qty preparation) Material Purchase Preparation of CAD drawing Factory Receiving, storage & issue  of material Production Quality checking Packing Dispatch Study was done to standardise/simplify material procurement, storage & issue system   Before implementation of...

The billion dollar question in Business Excellence Journey is,“is it sustainable”?. The next question that follows is, which is the best methodology?  TQM ,  TPM ,  LEAN ,  SIX SIGMA ,  TOC , AGILE, BPM?. After years of practical exposure of working with various  organization, we found the answer. We decided to share it with rest of the organizations. Seven Steps Business Transformation Systems  was founded about a decade ago with the mission of Making Excellence a Culture. We have developed a Seven Step methodology to achieve and sustain Excellence.Two major factors that play important role in sustaining  Business Excellence Journey  and its results are : Leadership and Culture. One of the great Business Gurus, Dr Edward Deming said “The secret of success is constancy of purpose”. If the Leadership believe in long term and aligns & integrates all Business strategies under a single umbrella, the success can be assured. Otherwi...

Quality is the result of collective effort of every employee in an organization. Quality cannot be achieved only through stringent quality control methods and use of sophisticated instruments or by highly competent quality department. Dr. Deming claims that 85 % of quality problems are created by people who never touch the product. Also quality cannot be achieved using flavor of the month approach. When individuals make quality as a habit, it becomes a culture at organization level. In this paper we are making an attempt to summarize traits of an organization where quality is a culture. 1: What is Quality Culture and how we measure it? During one of the plant visit, we entered their canteen and found beautiful visuals for keeping the used food plates, cups, waste food etc…And in practice most of the employees mixing cups and plates, partially clearing waste foods from plate etc… We came to a conclusion that this company may be having serious concerns of quality...