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Jay P. Patel, CEO of QPS Consulting
Oct 18, 2006 - Noon time Speaker
"Development and Execution of Winning Strategies in the 21st Century for
Supply Chain"
Biography:
 In today’s global environments, the companies must develop low
cost, high quality and responsive supply chain with new customer supplier relationships
to stay competitive. The new world is flat and needs integrated global strategies
for making breakthrough improvements to be competitive.
Effective strategies start understanding customer current and future needs, global
world opportunities, designing for customer needs, and flexible to changing needs.
It starts at the design stage of a product’s life cycle, since the most of the cost
is fixed when product is designed. Effective management must employ the techniques
also of global sourcing, value engineering and improvement breakthrough tools.
Concurrent approach involves suppliers in the early design stages. The primary advantage
is supplies are committed and involved to make the program successful. Supplier
initiated improvements require that supplier change its behavior that are beneficial
to customers.
Effective customer supplier alliances are powerful tools for building the competititive
advantage as they unlock the capacity for innovation and improvement that outweighs
the cost savings offered by competitive bidding process. The companies must adapt
a strategy, which uses right level of functionality and quality at the right price.
The keynote speaker will focus on global supply chain, long term of customer supplier
partnership, mutual assistance with frequent communication, total value chain costs,
sharing of technical and cost information, and global thinking with high degree
of trust. Use of IT system, DFSS, Six sigma, Lean, Project Management, and other
human and process focused improvement methodologies and tools will be essential
to improve innovation, cost and quality. Internal and external process and people
enhancement will be required for achievement of world-class performance to compete
in the 21st century.
Jay P. Patel has more than 25 years of experience in management, operations & quality
area. His professional work experience includes working at: General Electric, Allied
Signal- Bendix, United Technologies-Carrier, and Cabot Safety Corporation plus consulting
and training services to many of the Fortunes 500 clients, in both Manufacturing
and Service industries.
Currently, he is CEO of Quality & Productivity Solutions, Inc. The company provides
consulting, training and auditing services for Six Sigma, Lean, Management System,
Project Management & Business Improvements.
Jay has been National Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award Examiner. Jay has served, presented
speeches and seminars to various organizations such as Project Management Institute,
American Production and Inventory Control, Institute of Industrial Engineers, American
Society for Quality and Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Jay has served ASQ at
local, regional and national level. He is Conference chair plus 2006-2007 NEQC chair.
He has been chair of NEQC before.
Jay has over 10 ASQ certifications including certified six sigma Black Belt. He
is an ASQ fellow. He is also RAB Quality Management System Lead Auditor besides
other certifications.
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