Assignment Operation Management Rev 1
Assignment Operation Management Rev 1
Assignment Operation Management Rev 1
Figure 1 below showed the relationship between all principles and weightage of each
principle. It divided to 4 main weightages started with nothing important, important, very
important and extremely important. Through this, it shows principle PA1 Leadership is the main
critical component in organization, followed by PA2 customer focus, follow by PA6 process
management, followed by PA3 employee involvement and commitment, followed by PA8
Quality tools and business excellence models, follow by PA5 Strategic Planning Management,
follow by PA4 HR Management (Incentive and recognition) and lastly Continuous improvement
and innovation.
Figure 1 : General view of the quality management principles and practices. (Barros, Sampaio,
& Saraiva, 2014)
Involvement of people from top management up to shop floor member, in other word is
all levels of employee are crucial to enable abilities to organization benefit. All employees shall
have and communicate in one voice to follow strategic direction as organization objectives.
Employees are stakeholder of organization, organization shall also understand the need and
expectation of their employee. According to (ISO, 2015), employee is defined as one of the
interested parties in organization. Involvement of people can make all employees fully utilize
and create environment friendly, and employee not fear to speak up and take an action. It also
encourages employee involvement to support continuous improvement and meet organization
objectives. The involvement of people create benefit to organization with better engagement,
various with enhance creativity and teamwork in achieving organization objective.
A process is determined as a series of action to come out a result or output. Process
approach in quality management is to make sure the process is well establishing to transform
input to output. Applying a right system and resources of processing within the organization can
consider as a process approach (DIAMANDESCU). Organization shall determine each level of
processes have regulation to keep them under control and improve the efficiency continuously.
All processes need to have a standard in order to enable continuous improvement in future. With
the process approach it will make system easier to understand identical and it will enable
organization to identify the critical processes and allow leaders to focus on that. The other
benefit for the process approach is organization can have ability to focus on key processes,
optimized performance resources, make operation and system process align in achieving
consistency of product, identify and eliminate waste, promoting continuous improvement and
lead organization effective and efficient.
Decision making is critical to ensure the leader of an organization make a right direction.
An organization shall decide based on analysis and evaluation of data and information. This
discipline enable organization to determine and monitor key data in decision making. Evaluating
the data give organization to understand the bottle neck, root cause and effect relationship, risk
calculation then right decision making can be made by organization. The right decision with data
analysis driven benefit organization in improve decision making, improve process, improve
effectiveness and efficiency and better negotiation power for organization success.
Figure 5 : Result of the regression analysis between TQM index and performance measure.
(Sadikoglu & Olcay, 2014).
In addition to describe more about TQM principles and practices have increase
organization performance to different level, reviewed has been made at my current organization.
I have compiled and reviewed a few performance measurements and key performance indicators
in current organization as a case study for this TQM. Current organization is Steelcase
Manufacturing Malaysia, SMM is a contract manufacturer for Steelcase product. Its main
product is office furniture. SMM is ISO 9001 and 14001 certify manufacturer. With this, SMM
is practicing and using a TQM discipline in organising and controlling it operation. Figure 7
below is the SMM Quality Policy and most of the item are driven from the TQM principle,
continuous improvement, empowerment, customer focus on quality, delivery and competitive
cost, leadership roles, process and system approach to be an operation excellence to all related
interested parties including supplier. Furthermore, Figure 8 below is a diagram to show the
connection between TQM principles and KPIs at SMM. Based on this diagram, customer focus
in a focus at SMM, and you can see the customer focus is linked to all the TQM principles and
KPI. At the centre of this diagram, leadership play an important role to manage, govern and
develop all members, systems, processes to support customer focus principle. The other TQM
principles are continuous improvement, process and system approach, empowerment, and mutual
supplier relationship. Each of TQM is support by the KPI in order to ensure principles are
maintain and achievable.
In the SMM policy mentions about customer focus. In this focus, there are 3 critical items
to focus on customer satisfaction, there are acceptable quality to product and services, on time
delivery and competitive cost. Therefore, there are a few KPI created to support these critical
item likes a 1) Split shipment performance,2) Say YES to market demand performance, and
3)Defect Part Per Million. Split shipment performance is a measure to ensure customer receive a
good as per customer plan in term of time and quantity. Then, say YES to customer demand is a
measure to support on customer expectation for the order confirmation and meeting customer
date demand in quantity and delivery date. Lastly, Defect Part Per Million ( DPPM ) is a measure
to support on product quality once received by customer. These 3 main KPIs for this year are
supporting SMM in understand and deliver a customer experience and expectation. In addition,
these also create a better understanding and improve customer relationship with organization.
Each of any disturbance in these KPIs, there are an action to analyse and improve the situation.
Then, continuous activity elements come into improve the situation.
In the diagram Figure 8, leadership is a connect and become a governance to all the
elements. There are a few actions and activities from leadership to support SMM objectives.
Leadership in SMM establish a direction, develop KPI, plan a training plan to employees,
leading organization as example and review needs and resource to make sure SMM perform as it
objectives. In this leadership element, there are a few KPI was developed. One of main KPI is a
successor plan training to next level employee. This KPI helps leader to develop employee to
success in leadership roles future. This KPI help SMM and SMM leaders to develop people to be
a servant leader and at the same time support on SMM business performance when there are
more responsible and accountable.
Continuous improvement is one the principles in SMM quality policy. It drives all
employee actively participate in improvement idea and activity to increase SMM performance
toward achieving total customer satisfaction and operational excellence. There are a group of
employees are dedicated to governing a continuous improvement activity. The team also provide
appropriate education, training, method on how to have a proper continuous improvement
activity likes LEAN, Plan-Do-Check-Act, 8D and others. The idea from employee will be
evaluate, track and monitor on the progress. One of the KPI impacted from the continuous
improvement activity is cost saving to the SMM. Previous year result showed, approximate
USD 450k cost saving ideas was generated. The other KPI support to this continuous
improvement activity is Value added Value Engineering ( VAVE ). These practices are
supporting the study conducted by (Shahid , Faisal, & Aftab , 2014) in Figure 5 above.
In the scope of SMM, empowerment play important practice to ensure a few KPIs &
measurements meet the target. Empowerment enhance the employee skill and competency.
SMM and organization will have more skill and competence employee to manage and control
operation. The competence employee supports the operation in various activities and areas
especially to support continuous activity program. As a result, operation performance will
continue success. The success can be illustrated by 2 examples of KPIs at SMM for resource
utilization and order completion. First, in production, KPI for the Resource Utilization is target at
95% over the year, production can achieve this target at the end of the year is 95%. Second is,
Order Completion KPI is target 100% monthly, production also able to meet this target at the end
of the year. One of the good practices from TQM for the success in this KPI was empowerment.
Employee able to work independently without jeopardize the operation needs. Hence, by
achieving these two KPIs, it directly supporting continuous improvement activity for next period
of KPI target.
Lastly, it is about mutual supplier relationship. SMM collaborate with supplier seriously
and many activities was developed to make sure good relationship with them. Supplier is SMM
business partners and good relationship help SMM growth and deliver a good product to
customer. Beneficial relationship is enhancing the ability for both to create value as both are
interdependent. There are activities to make sure business partner can perform better and always
deliver a good result to SMM. TQM elements are main items to look at for the business partner
selection. SMM believe, those business partners that having TQM element are reliable. The
activity manages by procurement and supplier quality team and has a few KPI to govern the
performance. One of the KPI to see business partner performance is Supplier Score Card. The
input in this Score Card comes from evaluation from Purchasing Department, Quality
Department and Procurement. SMM also has a supplier day and monthly business review to
create a healthy environment, joint improvement, recognise supplier performance and clear
communication about future business.
Conclusion
Applying a total quality management with all the principles that being discussed above, it
shows correlation to organization performance. It may not all principles contribute to this
performance directly. Some of them depend on the organization structure, and business field.
The key and essential thing is to ensure the organization is consistently use, apply and promote
the principles and discipline to entire organization and interested parties. With this, it will growth
the organization better.
Appendixes Journals
3 Barros , S., Sampaio, P., & Saraiva , P. (2014). QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND
PRACTICES IMPACT ON THE COMPANIES’ QUALITY PERFORMANCE. International Conference on
Quality ICQ'14-Tokyo. Tokyo.
4 Shahid , M., Faisal, Q., & Aftab , A. (2014). Realtionship between TQM Dimensions and
Organizational Performance. Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, 662-679.
5 Sadikoglu, E., & Olcay, H. (2014). The Effects of Total Quality Management Practices on
Performance and the Reasons of and the Barriers to TQM Practices in Turkey. Advances in
Decision Sciences.
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