by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Operations, Project, & Supply Chain Management
What is the PATHFINDER Card?The Pathfinder card is a Self-Assessment tool for identifying opportunities for improvement. Its purpose is to assist in the identification of improvement opportunities through Self-Assessment and to help build improvement plans. It is not...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Operations, Project, & Supply Chain Management
What is the Deming Chain Reaction? The Deming Chain explains the reason why organizations should spend effort, time and money to improve the quality of their products and services.What are the steps in Deming’s Chain Reaction?Improve Quality = Costs decrease...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Operations, Project, & Supply Chain Management
What are the Types of Business Processes?Henk Kleijn and Fred Rorink, in their book ‘Change Management, identified 5 different kinds of business processes in any company (organization): Primary processes: these are the main processes in a business, such...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Operations, Project, & Supply Chain Management
What is Business Process Modeling?Business Process Modeling is a technique used to model or demonstrate a business process before implementing it. Business models provide ways of expressing business processes or strategies in terms of business activities and...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Operations, Project, & Supply Chain Management
What is Total Preventative Maintenance (TPM)?Total Preventative Maintenance seeks to anticipate equipment failures through routine maintenance. TPM includes the following activities: Regular Maintenance activities – These activities are normally carried out the...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Operations, Project, & Supply Chain Management
What are Push Production Systems?In a push production system a schedule pushes work on to machines which is then passed through to the next work centre. At each production stage a buffer stock is kept to ensure that if any production stage fails then the subsequent...
