{"id":6529,"date":"2023-08-08T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2023-07-20T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:45:48","slug":"juran-purchasing-improvement-for-lend-lease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/juran-purchasing-improvement-for-lend-lease\/","title":{"rendered":"Juran &#8211; Purchasing Improvement for Lend-Lease"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Purchasing departments are sluggish and error-prone. Joseph Juran used the tools of quality to simplify, streamline and optimize Lend-Lease purchasing during WWII. You can too.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/826905978?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I was wandering through my old collection of Quality Progress magazines. This one&#8217;s from 2004, it was about a hundred years of Juran. Now, he was born in Romania in 1904 and immigrated to the Minneapolis region at about 12 years of age. I was reading through this, and one of the things in here struck me: during the war, he used his statistical skills and engineering to improve purchasing, budgeting and paperwork gridlock for Lend-Lease.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now Lend-Lease was where we were sending things to England and the Soviet Union to enable them to continue to fight the war against the Nazis. This is a common theme in QI Macros: purchasing departments try and buy stuff from us, and I can tell you purchasing departments are endlessly screwed up and slow. We had one large company was trying to buy [around] 200 licenses and they wanted to do it in an emergency fashion. It took them two months to hunt their way through the purchasing department.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;The I.T departments are not much better because they&#8217;re trying to protect against all things possible, and they sent a 62-page questionnaire to say \u201cDo you do all these things?\u201d No, we don&#8217;t live in the cloud, we don&#8217;t live over here, we&#8217;re a little add-in for Microsoft Excel, we don&#8217;t talk to the rest of the world, we don&#8217;t do all these other things, right? So, like 99% of their questionnaire has absolutely no relevance to us, but they&#8217;re trying to cover all their bases and CYA.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So I&#8217;d like you get this idea that purchasing departments could be a great place to go to work on things and see if we can&#8217;t make things a little smoother, right? Simplify, streamline, optimize purchasing so you can actually buy the stuff you need when you need it.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. 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