Problem:
The Process Improvement Plan (PIP) focuses on how to make operations efficient and safe, comply with external regulations and safeguard against issues like those caused when Marketing promises earlier delivery dates. For this discussion, recommend you prepare a PIP that includes three (3) sections: background, analysis, and execution. Your analysis should include research on various process improvement methodologies. Also, the execution section should include which of the methodologies you want the staff to implement. Create separate checklists for the department staff to conduct continuous process improvement.
The vendor comparison matrix is a supply chain management tool that should list the various criteria you wants the staff to use when comparing vendors, as well as the details on how the staff should determine the value of the criteria. For example, if you include quality as a criterion for comparing vendors, state how quality will be quantitatively measured and the various quality ratings the staff are to assign. You also want to quantify each comparison criterion, so an overall quantitative measure is created for each vendor. This quantitative measure is how you will rank the vendors from best to worst. The vendor comparison matrix goes in the "execution" section.
It would be prudent to consider content covered in chapters 15 & 16 of the textbook, as well as many other useful resources available on the Internet and in the literature to support the construction of your memo.
Note: The plan should be prepared in a single MicrosoftTM Word document and attached to the unit discussion thread. There is no minimum or maximum in terms of the word count; however, the response should explicitly address all required components of this discussion assignment. The document should be prepared consistent with the APA writing style and reflect higher-level cognitive processing (i.e., analysis, synthesis and/or evaluation).