Managing Quality: Integrating the Supply Chain

By S. Thomas Foster and John W. Gardner

Book Overview

KEY BENEFIT Foster's Managing Quality: Integrating the Supply Chain, Sixth Edition offers readers a thorough introduction to quality management by presenting a supply chain theme as the unifying framework for quality improvement. The supply chain thread enhances the integration of systems with customers, suppliers, technology, and people. The colorful, stunning text appeals to visual learners and grabs readers' attention at the outset. The Sixth Edition elicits a theme of "currency" while offering updated vignettes and references to remain state-of-the-art. The new edition is selectively edited and enhanced with new content that maintains its scope and withstands pivotal points in each section. Managing Quality keeps a competitive advantage by sustaining and building on cutting edge, relevant topics in quality management. KEY TOPICS Differing Perspectives on Quality; Quality Theory; Global Supply Chain Quality and International Quality Standards; Strategic Quality Planning; The Voice of the Customer; The Voice of the Market; Quality and Innovation in Product and Process Design; Designing Quality Services; Managing Supplier Quality in the Supply Chain; Acceptance Sampling; The Tools of Quality; Statistically Based Quality Improvement for Variables; Statistically Based Quality Improvement for Attributes; Six Sigma Management and Lean Tools; Managing Quality Improvement Teams and Projects; Implementing and Validating the Quality System MARKET For anyone interested in understanding quality management through a unifying theme of supply chain.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0133798259
• ISBN13: 9780133798258
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 10.0"

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