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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Managing quality</title>
    <subTitle>integrating the supply chain</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Foster, S. Thomas</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Pearson Education Limited</publisher>
    <dateIssued>©2017</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2017</dateIssued>
    <edition>Sixth edition ; Global edition</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>476 pages:  illustrations</extent>
    <extent>26 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Preface -- Understanding quality concepts -- Differing perspectives on quality -- Quality theory -- Global supply chain quality and international quality standards -- Designing and assuring quality -- Strategic quality planning -- The voice of the customer -- The voice of the market -- Designing quality services -- Managing supplier quality in the supply chain -- Implementing quality -- The tools of quality -- Statistically based quality improvement for variables -- Statistically based quality improvement for attributes -- Sigma management and lean tools -- Forever improving the quality system -- Managing quality improvement teams and projects -- Implementing and validating the quality system -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Index.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">S. Thomas Foster.</note>
  <note>Includes index</note>
  <note>in English</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Quality of products</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Quality control</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">658.4013 F81m 2017</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">978-1-292-15421-3</identifier>
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