Case Study: Nissan: Building Resiliency – Milestone 2

From Professor: Paper format and sections please, please, please refer to the rubric for guideline and grading so you don’t inadvertently miss a section of the paper – Milestone Two Guidelines And Rubric
Similar to the Milestone One paper I’ve included an overall template you can use for the Milestone Two Paper.
Theories and Techniques
TOC – get this from the reading/article in the course PDF: The Theory of Constraints and Its Thinking Process
TQM – you can get very good information from the book or from the ASQ website.
Data Analysis
Cause and Effect Diagram – the book has some information as well as the ASQ site (https://asq.org/quality-resources/total-quality-management) for Fishbone diagrams please make sure you look at the specific effect of “company’s supply chain partners might have struggled to implement some of the company’s newly developed materials”. Here’s a template that some folks generated of the Fishbone diagram. (https://asq.org/quality-resources/fishbone)

Process Map/Time Function Map – there’ a number of good resources out there both from your book and from YouTube – https://www.pipefy.com/blog/business-process-management/how-to-map-your-processes-a-step-by-step-guide/. Here’s a template that some folks generated of the Process Map you can use as well.
Manufacturing Location – This is a weighted criteria matrix, clear instructions are in your book about how to handle this. Remember you are looking for the HIGHEST weighted score in each section and overall for the location