Quality Management and Supply Chain Integration

Catalog description

Teaches total quality management through supply chain management. Covers quality management tools and techniques at the strategic, tactical, and operational decision levels of supply chain management. Focuses on quality design, control, and improvement. Covers quantitative tools such as design for quality, quality measurement, Taguchi loss function, statistical methods in quality control, and design of experiments. Explores the importance of quality with relation to customers and suppliers in the supply chain. Examines quality in processes. Develops quality in the workforce guidelines. Enrollment Restrictions: Enrollment restricted to students in the Supply Chain Analytics, M.S. program.