Quality Camping Goods, Inc., has a distribution center in Indiana where it receives and breaks down bulk orders from suppliers’ factories and ships out products to retail customers. Prepare a Pareto chart showing the different quality cost categories and percentages for the company’s quality costs that were incurred over the past year How might this information be used to help define a Six Sigma project?   Image with data attached

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Quality Camping Goods, Inc., has a distribution center in Indiana where it receives and breaks down bulk orders from suppliers’ factories and ships out products to retail customers. Prepare a Pareto chart showing the different quality cost categories and percentages for the company’s quality costs that were incurred over the past year How might this information be used to help define a Six Sigma project?

 

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Problem 3-3
Quality Camping Goods, Inc.
Chart Title
Cost Element
$ Amount
700000
100%
Checking outbound boxes for errors
Quality planning
Downtime due to conveyor/computer problems 344250
Packaging waste
Incoming product inspection
Customer complaint rework
Correcting erroneous orders before shipping
Quality training of associates
Quality improvement projects
Other waste
Correction of typographical errors-pick tickets
603500
90%
8500
600000
80%
63750
500000
70%
51000
34000
34000
60%
400000
50%
25500
300000
40%
17000
30%
46750
200000
8500
20%
100000
10%
Quality Camping Goods, Inc., has a distribution center in Indiana
where it receives and breaks down bulk orders from suppliers'
factories and ships out products to retail customers. Prepare a Pareto
chart showing the different quality cost categories and percentages
0%
for the company's quality costs that were incurred over the past year
How might this information be used to help define a Six Sigma
project?
Checking outbound boxes.
Downtime due to conveyo.
Packaging waste
Incoming product.
Other waste
Customer complaint rework
Correcting erroneous orde.
Quality training of..
Quality improvement.
Quality planning
Correction of typographic.
Transcribed Image Text:Problem 3-3 Quality Camping Goods, Inc. Chart Title Cost Element $ Amount 700000 100% Checking outbound boxes for errors Quality planning Downtime due to conveyor/computer problems 344250 Packaging waste Incoming product inspection Customer complaint rework Correcting erroneous orders before shipping Quality training of associates Quality improvement projects Other waste Correction of typographical errors-pick tickets 603500 90% 8500 600000 80% 63750 500000 70% 51000 34000 34000 60% 400000 50% 25500 300000 40% 17000 30% 46750 200000 8500 20% 100000 10% Quality Camping Goods, Inc., has a distribution center in Indiana where it receives and breaks down bulk orders from suppliers' factories and ships out products to retail customers. Prepare a Pareto chart showing the different quality cost categories and percentages 0% for the company's quality costs that were incurred over the past year How might this information be used to help define a Six Sigma project? Checking outbound boxes. Downtime due to conveyo. Packaging waste Incoming product. Other waste Customer complaint rework Correcting erroneous orde. Quality training of.. Quality improvement. Quality planning Correction of typographic.
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