Lean Management and Six Sigma

This report discusses the concept of Lean management and Six Sigma, focusing on their advantages and disadvantages. It explores how TESCO, a multinational supermarket chain, implements Lean Six Sigma to provide superior quality products and services at affordable cost. The report also highlights the differences between Lean Six Sigma and other quality management concepts.

Lean management and Six Sigma

Executive Summary
This report is carried upon TESCO. It is the multinational chain of supermarket which
is situated in UK in the year of 1919. They offer superior quality products and services to its
customer at affordable cost in order to satisfy them. The founder of this company is Jack
Cohen. In addition to this, the Lean methodology is measured as an operational idea which
focuses on analyzing as well as removing wastage within organisation in order to gain profit
in targeted period of time. It helps them in building good brand image and reputation of
company in mind-set of customer.

TABLE OF CONTENT
Executive Summary...................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The Lean methodology is considered as an operational idea which emphasised on
assessing as well as eliminating wastage within business organisation. This report is carried
on TESCO. It is multinational company which is located in UK. This organisation was
founded by Jack Cohen in the year of 1919. The main purpose of every organisation is to
provide superior quality products and services at affordable cost in order to satisfy them.
Apart from this, the Six Sigma offer high quality goods in order to minimize the defects in
them at affordable cost. And also the benefits and drawbacks of Six Sigma are discussed in
this assignment.
MAIN BODY
Lean Six Sigma is described as a procedure in which collaborative team make
contribution in boosting the performance in a systematic way by eliminating waste within
business organisation. Therefore, the manager focuses on improving quality which is
provided to customer by removing wastage at workplace (de Freitas, Costa and Ferraz, 2017).
There are various benefits as well as drawback of Lean Six Sigma which is going to be
mentioned below:
Advantages:
 The main advantage of Lean Six Sigma is to provide superior quality products and
services to its customer in order to satisfy them as well as eliminating the error.
 The implementation of Lean Six Sigma helps the business firm in increasing
profitability level at minimal cost in order to achieve favourable outcomes.
 Herein, the main focuses of business firm in boosting sales as well as employment
growth in marketplace.
 Moreover, the other benefit is to find deviation as well as emphasised on improving
process rather than ultimate results (Deblois and Lepanto, 2016).
Disadvantages:
 The drawback of implementing Six Sigma is that this process focuses on bureaucracy
as it prevents business firm in bring innovative as well as creativity at workplace.
 The execution of Six Sigma is only possible through skilled and talented employees.
Therefore, it is not for business firm to accomplish it in continuous basis.

 It is necessary for organisation to resolve the issues related to time barrier while
transforming the academic idea into useful one can be considered as a drawback for
company.
There are various quality management concepts which involve TQM, Six Sigma as well
as Lean production. They are different from each other but they are used by company in
order to bring changes in performing various functions and activities in an effective manner.
In addition to this, they are different by theory, philosophies as well as approaches. It has
been stated that they are complementary to each other. Apart from this, Six Sigma as well as
Lean are used as a effective roadmap which is adopted by business firm together and provide
value to its to total quality management. The primal purpose of business firm is to provide
superior quality products and services to its customer at affordable cost in order to satisfy
them. It helps in increasing sales as well as profitability level in future period of time
(Antony, Setijono and Dahlgaard, 2016).
In past time, Lean Six Sigma signifies that it is adopted in many places as an application
and system. This approach is used to achieve favourable outcomes in order to monitor,
control as well as improvement of different operations related to product & services.
Therefore, it is necessary to replacing it through Future Lean Six sigma. For example total
quality management is predicted by different persons in various ways so that main purpose is
to meet six sigma and TQM in order to achieve success and growth within business
organisation by providing high quality products and services to its customer at affordable cost
(Ganesh and Marathe, 2018).
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report, it has been analysed that lean six sigma is adopted
by business firm to offer superior quality products and services to its customer at affordable
cost by eliminating waste. It helps the company in boosting sales as well as profitability level
in future period of time. In addition to this, the main advantages and disadvantages of Six
Sigma are also mentioned. And also the differences among different factors related to Six
Sigma. Beside form this, the future Lean Six Sigma is also discussed in this report. Therefore,
the manager of TESCO provides high quality products and services to its customer at
affordable cost.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Antony, J., Setijono, D. and Dahlgaard, J.J., 2016. Lean Six Sigma and Innovation–an
exploratory study among UK organisations. Total Quality Management & Business
Excellence, 27(1-2), pp.124-140.
de Freitas, J.G., Costa, H.G. and Ferraz, F.T., 2017. Impacts of Lean Six Sigma over
organizational sustainability: A survey study. Journal of cleaner production, 156, pp.262-
275.
Deblois, S. and Lepanto, L., 2016. Lean and Six Sigma in acute care: a systematic review of
reviews. International journal of health care quality assurance.
Ganesh, L.S. and Marathe, R.R., 2018. A morphological analysis of research literature on
Lean Six Sigma for services. International Journal of Operations & Production
Management.