Article ID: | iaor20073603 |
Country: | South Korea |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 323 |
End Page Number: | 337 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2006 |
Journal: | Journal of the Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers |
Authors: | Kim Hyoungtae, Park Hyungjin, Yoon Junggee, Yang Hongmo, Chung Banghwan, Kah Chulsoon, Park Heungok |
Keywords: | innovation |
Samsung, recognized as a global leading company, has huge and complex supply chain structures and has been improving them continuously for its fast-growing global businesses. SCM 6 Sigma is the state-of-the-art methodology developed through a combination of SCM innovation concepts accumulated from SCM Business Group in Samsung SDS and 6 Sigma which has successfully settled down as the management innovation tool for many companies in Samsung. The ultimate goal of SCM 6 Sigma is to train and develop future supply chain leaders who are more capable of leading SCM innovations. By leveraging the established 6 Sigma Belt System, Samsung aims to alleviate a shortage of SCM talents that has been a bottleneck in improving SCM performances at its group companies. This explains why SCM 6 Sigma is created. SCM 6 Sigma is the unique and critical component for Samsung to implement its various strategies for continuous improvement of its operations at a higher level of effectiveness and systematically as well. In return on these efforts, many SCM innovation projects have been successfully executed through SCM 6 Sigma up to today. In this paper, we introduce the methodology and explain the business rationale behind it together with its deployment case.