The Application Of Lean Six Sigma In Reduction Of Supplier Product Qualification Cycle Time

The increasingly fierce market competition increased the pressure to the enterprise:on the one hand the increasingly high quality of products and services to customer requirements, delivery cycles are getting shorter, on the other hand, internal operating costs had been compressed.And the integration of Lean speed and Six Sigma quality is the powerful weapon to improve these, so more and more companies began to focus on Lean Six Sigma.The integrating of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma can make companies stand on two different sides of lean production management and Six Sigma quality to improve their existing problems, also find, analyze, and solve potential problems during development, so that they can have an absolute advantage in quality, speed and cost, which can make companies supply products and services more quickly and economically to satisfy customers fully and maximize the creation of customer value. Lean Six Sigma, on the one hand, takes various measures to reduce process variation and improve quality, on the other hand, eliminates the waste of the process, reconstructs and optimizes processes to make the process faster, so that enterprises can solidize their basic management level, stimulating the production of the enterprise and achieving on time production and flexible manufacturing. After the implementation of Lean Six Sigma projects, companies can provide products and services with higher quality and faster speed than their competitors to maintain customer full satisfaction and loyalty, increasing market share.At the same time these enterprises continue to improve internal operations efficiency and market ability to respond to consolidate its unique competitive advantage and improve the core competitiveness, and thus greatly enhance its financial benefits.At present, more and more Chinese enterprises began to apply the Lean Six Sigma methods. But there are less successful companies. How to combine the characteristics of Chinese enterprises to achieve the successful application of Lean Six Sigma such as the most companies in America and Europe which succeeded in application of Lean Six Sigma is difficulty for many enterprises. This paper attempts to analyze and summarize how to apply Lean Six Sigma and share successful experience by Lean Six Sigma theory review and the real example how GWPT company apply Lean Six Sigma methodology to reduce supplier product qualification cycle time.