How do you balance the Six Sigma objectives of virtually never
suffering a stock out on gloves versus the costs to maintain
sufficient inventory to gurantee that medical personnel nearly always
have the right glove at hand?

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Request for Question Clarification by endo-ga on 13 Apr 2006 11:03 PDT

Six Sigma's objective is to improve your process. If the process costs
too much when it runs at its optimum level, then you need to
reengineer the process, which is another exercise.

If you want to keep the same process, then you need to assess the
costs in terms of the benefits and the risks if you don't implement
the improvement.

Thanks.
endo

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Request for Question Clarification by maniac-ga on 13 Apr 2006 19:52 PDT

Hello Dooney11,

The most obvious balance is the benefit of having the gloves at all
time (preventing extremely expensive lost time during a medical
procedure). Are you willing to consider an answer describing the
benefits in that way?

  --Maniac

Six Sigma is just a management buzzword.  It is a silly system to
waste money.  Has it not gone out of style yet?  Its time to dies has
surley come.

nelson, there are huge success stories but lots of large organisations
that show benefits from implementing Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma.

The most famous examples are GE and Motorola.

endo

Horatio

Six Sigma is actually a cleary defined mathematical concept. However
many managers do regurgitate it ad nauseum without a clue as to what
it really means.

The next time you  are in a management meeting and someone comes out
with Six Sigma (or any other buzzword) ask them in a humble manner to
explain exactly what it means.

Sincerely 

Mongolia