350 words for Week 4: Quality Tactics and the Logistics and Supply Chain Functions

What tools are applicable internally What tools are applicable externally with vendors

350 words for Week 5: Roll-Out

Describe the process of rolling out this new 
company-wide quality initiative. Pay specific attention to the logistics and supply chain management functions. Include the following: A communication plan Recommended sequence of steps to get personnel trained Stakeholders on board (e.g., the vendor base, trucking companies, warehouse personnel)

THE QUALITY ISSUE: GM’S IGNITION SWITCH RECALL.
CRITICAL ELEMENTS
The following critical elements must be addressed in your completed paper:
1. Company Background and History. Provide a brief company history that includes the company’s origins, founders, main products, and services, as well as the industries the company services.
2. Description of Quality Issue. Describe the quality issue and the impact the issue has had on the company.
3. Quality Culture. Describe the company’s quality culture and explain whether the culture played a part in the quality issue.
4. Voice of the Customer. Explain the impact the quality issue has had on the company’s customers and describe the customers’ reactions to the quality issue.
5. Change Management Plan. Provide a detailed plan that includes the following elements to bring about change within the company and to overcome the quality issue.
a. Quality Theories. Explain which quality theories you would follow to bring about change and explain why you chose those theories.
b. Quality Tools and Techniques. Identify at least three quality tools and techniques that you would implement to improve the company’s quality.
c. Implementing Change. Explain the process and procedures you would take to implement these changes within the organization.
d. Resistance to Change. Explain some of the potential challenges that may prevent implementation.
6. Expected Outcomes. Provide a summary of the expected outcomes and how these changes will impact the organizational quality culture.