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The business environment today has become extremely competitive. Companies are not only facing competition from their local competitors but also from global ones. Different economic and geopolitical factors make global supply chains necessary. The problem with having global supply chains is that operations become broad and complex. It is much easier to manage operations located […]
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Customs Clearance – Meaning, Scope and Documentation
Customs Departments are the government designated authority to implement the policies related to import and export, collect customs duties and facilitate movement of people, goods, and cargo into and out of the country. Area of Operations and Authority Customs departments have offices at all seaports, airports and border gateways that are essentially the exit and […]
The analyze phase is one of the most dreaded phases in the Six Sigma methodology. There are common assumptions made that this phase involves a lot of high level statistical analysis. No wonder that most trainings are scheduled before analyze phase. The Six Sigma team members want to refresh their concepts before they actually get down and get their hands dirty.
However, the fact is that Statistics takes the limelight involved. Statistical analysis is just the last stage of a series of analysis. This is so because the Six Sigma methodology focuses on verifiable facts and statistics can empirically confirm a statement and make an opinion of a fact. Here is a look at the different analysis that are carried out behind the scenes.
Example: A Six Sigma project team is trying to conduct the analyze phase on a process. Even though the vital few inputs have been identified in the earlier stage, there still will be hundreds of relationships that might exist between the data. How does the Six Sigma project team know, which relationships are significant and must be hypothesised? No company has the resources to waste on conducting every possible hypothesis.
In such cases, the preliminary analysis serve the purpose. It requires some expertise and common sense on the part of a Six Sigma team to actually identify the business problems. These problems are then converted to statistical problems and a solution is reached as per the fact based nature of Six Sigma methodology.
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