As new award possibilities arise, organizations become challenged to operate at increasingly improving quality levels in order to beat out competing companies. Such awards include the well-known Deming and Baldrige awards. As more and more corporations are competing to be the leader in the quality field, quality standards consequently rise. Service, product, process, and organization quality operations associated with a company are enhanced and overall enhanced quality is presented to the end consumer. Quality, according to The American Society for Quality, is “the totality of features and characteristics that satisfy needs without deficiencies” (Russell 55). To more simply define quality, it is the ability for a product or service to fulfill both the customer’s needs and expectations (Sanders 138). If the product or service fulfills consumer expectations, it is safe to assume that the customer will be pleased and consider that product or service of acceptable or even high quality. However, if the consumer’s expectations and needs are not met, the product or service will be associated with other low quality products or services.
Quality does, in fact, have specific parameters, which vary from product to product (Sanders 138). If we use an electronic, such as an iPod, for instance, quality characteristics include aspects such as performance, appearance, and relative simplicity of use, whereas quality of food products include nutrition, taste, texture, smell, and shelf life (UNIDO 1). There are two perspectives to take into account in terms of quality: that of the consumer and the producer. The consumer perspective, which is significantly more important, focuses primarily on fitness for use – or how well a product or service does...
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Today’s organizations are faced with increasing levels of global competition, customer’s demanding value for their money and high stakeholders expectations on investment returns. Gattorna (2003), notes that firms are now pursuing supply chain management as a strategy to competitive advantage. Firms in a supply chain relate, transact, and partner on different levels; from product design and development to product delivery. Through supply chain management a firm pursues value creation through timely product delivery, cost management, inventory control and customer service (Beamon, 1999).They do so individually or through synergies formed with other organizations to increase customer service
Deming stated that quality is when a company through a product or service meets and exceeds the customer expectation and continue to improve as this is an endless process.
The product is an important decision for a company in the domestic or global market. High quality products can bring benefits to a company. Materials that been used must be of high quality to stimulate demand. This situation encourages the purchase of goods by consumers.
While the quality of a product can be perceived differently among consumers today, consumers often place qualities onto products based on its price, brand reputation, store image, market share, produc...
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Quality is a very important thing in an organization; therefore it is not possible to improve the quality of a product or service substantially without major changes in all aspects of the organization. Because quality is so important if changes aren’t made throughout the organization the output of the product will no be very successful. Everyone in the organization plays a major role in the out come of its products.