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Six Sigma wants decisions to rest on which basis?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is a 1.5 sigma shift allowed for in Six Sigma?Read the answer and worked solution →Some firms add a step before Define in DMAIC, giving RDMAIC. What is R?Read the answer and worked solution →Kaizen holds that big gains come mainly from what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kaizen type happens very quickly, usually with little planning?Read the answer and worked solution →Who most accessibly defined quality circles in a 1985 handbook?Read the answer and worked solution →A quality circle is typically made up of which people?Read the answer and worked solution →Quality circles were formalized across Japan in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did quality circles fail to take root in the United States?Read the answer and worked solution →Reverse logistics in a supply chain means managing what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which activity falls within supply chain management as defined by CSCMP?Read the answer and worked solution →Which ISO/IEC standard describes a security-management system for supply chains?Read the answer and worked solution →Supply chain resilience is the capacity of a chain to do what in the face of change?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pattern describes the bullwhip effect in a supply chain?Read the answer and worked solution →Research says a 5 percent shift in point-of-sale demand may be read upstream as a shift of up to what?Read the answer and worked solution →Firms accumulate demand before ordering to cut transport cost. Which bullwhip cause is this?Read the answer and worked solution →A supplier delivers only a share of each order, so buyers inflate orders. Which bullwhip cause is this?Read the answer and worked solution →Each chain member adds safety stock to its own updated forecast. Which bullwhip cause is this?Read the answer and worked solution →Moving from end consumer toward raw material supplier, how does observed demand variation change?Read the answer and worked solution →Supply chain visibility originally concerned knowledge of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which best describes outsourcing?Read the answer and worked solution →A firm moves its own factory to another country and keeps ownership. What is this called?Read the answer and worked solution →The word outsourcing came from which phrase?Read the answer and worked solution →The tagline Do what you do best and outsource the rest is linked to which thinker?Read the answer and worked solution →What is co-sourcing in outsourcing practice?Read the answer and worked solution →What do step-in rights let a client do in an outsourcing contract?Read the answer and worked solution →Which event may trigger step-in rights under an outsourcing contract?Read the answer and worked solution →Global labour arbitrage in offshoring gives savings from lower what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is a tactical outsourcing model?Read the answer and worked solution →In outsourcing, what does transition methodology describe?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Six Sigma wants decisions to rest on which basis?

  1. Statistical, verifiable data
  2. Supplier suggestions
  3. Seniority-based opinion
  4. Managerial intuition
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Correct answer: A. Statistical, verifiable data

Six Sigma insists on verifiable data and statistical methods rather than assumptions and guesswork.

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Why is a 1.5 sigma shift allowed for in Six Sigma?

  1. Sampling cost falls
  2. Processes improve with age
  3. Customers tighten limits
  4. Long-run variation rises
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Correct answer: D. Long-run variation rises

Processes usually perform worse in the long term than the short term, so the shift allows for extra variation over time.

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Some firms add a step before Define in DMAIC, giving RDMAIC. What is R?

  1. Recognize
  2. Review
  3. Report
  4. Replace
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Correct answer: A. Recognize

The extra Recognize step means choosing the right problem to work on before Define begins.

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