In my experience, I have seen that Supplier management, being a governance party do a few of the tasks the same as the In-house or Supplier.

Most of the time is either being spent in making a repository of actions or artifacts. 

 

Wondering how(if) Six Sigma can be implemented for such governing parties which are not involved directly into production or Inspection(quality) department?

Hi Devang

 

Good observation. Lean Six Sigma tools can help in removing the Non-Value adding activities being performed by Supplier Management in order to avoid duplication / rework / rechecks etc. It can also help in reducing the cycle time and wait times in Supplier management tasks in order to reduce the overall Lead Time

Hi Devang, If there is a supplier quality assurance function instead of the supplier management function, the objective shifts to building supplier capability to a level that ensures that monitoring needs can reduce significantly. 

Hi Vishwadeep,

 

What if there is a Supplier quality assurance function in In-house production,  and additionally we have a governing/monitoring body as Supplier Management with below responsibility-

 

♦ Ensuring the onboarding of suppliers

♦ Governance of on-time execution at suppliers

♦ Providing continuous support during execution and monitoring data correctness/completeness into the reporting system

♦ Performance management of suppliers

♦ Evaluate supplier compliance

♦ On time and accurate invoicing and performance payouts to suppliers

♦ Facilitating RCA’s, new process/tools deployment and driving continual process improvement at suppliers

 

What is your view on such activities, what & How can be implemented/built to cut the waste?

any reference!!!

Hi Devang, 

 

Many companies including some of the e-commerce leaders that we work with have such Supplier Management functions. We conduct a full-fledged program on Vendor Managed Operations for such functions. This program covers efficiency in four sections. The outline can be seen here - https://www.benchmarksixsigma.com/corporate-programs/vendor-managed-operations-efficiency/. There is a large scope for cutting waste in each area.

 

Hope this helps.