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Cognitive bias and its impact on outsourcing
Cognitive biases can have a serious impact on supply chain management when it comes to outsourcing vendors. Krishnan Lakshminarayanan CQP MCQI, a Lead Auditor and Senior Manager at William Hare in India, examines some common examples and looks at how they can be avoided.
Managing supply chains post Brexit
Malcolm Harrison, Group CEO of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), talks to Daniel Moore about how Brexit will impact supply chains and logistics in 2021.
Driving quality excellence in 2021
Eric Stoop, CEO at EASE Inc – a developer of plant floor audits and insights software in the US – provides his top five tips to help manufacturing businesses overcome the obstacles posed by Covid-19.
Six Sigma in the manufacturing industry
Husain Al-Omani, Master Black Belt, Board Member of the AACE (Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering) International Marketing Board, highlights the importance of the Six Sigma approach and why more businesses should adopt this quality management methodology.
Auditing Santa's Workshop
With Christmas soon approaching, Hussain Ali, CQP MCQI, Quality Manager at Jacobs Engineering, explains how an audit at Santa’s Workshop taught him how to deliver more efficient audits during and after the festive season.
Improving product reliability in manufacturing
Dr Louis Redding, CQP FCQI, discusses some useful methods to help improve complex engineering products.
The correct measurement
Richard Asiedu Ofori, Msc, MBA, CQP, MCQI, Head of the Industrial Metrology Department at Ghana Standards Authority, explains the functions of measurement traceability for coordinating metrological confirmation and why this is important to assure quality in manufacturing and international trade
Are your suppliers prepared for the revised ISO 13485?
Werner Karau, European Commercial Leader at Flexan LLC, analyses why original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) must ensure their suppliers comply to the revised ISO 13485 standard by the March 2019 deadline
Kobe Steel: the board has questions to answer but this crisis runs much deeper
Estelle Clark, executive director for policy at CQI, comments on the Japanese metal company’s fake quality checks’ data scandal and its repercussions.
Exclusive book extract from Coca-Cola’s vice president of innovation and entrepreneurship
David Butler, Coca-Cola’s vice president of innovation and entrepreneurship, reveals the company’s design-led strategy for growth.