“Six Sigma is a fact-based, data-driven philosophy of quality improvement that values defect prevention over defect detection.”
Six Sigma is also business philosophy of focusing on continuous improvement by understanding customer needs, understanding current business processes, and applying data collection methods.
It is also methodology for organization to make sure those improvements done to improve the key processes.
Six sigma tools and techniques also used to identify which business process in the organization would be benefited most due to improvement effort.
Six Sigma has been a prevailing methodology used by numerous sectors of manufacturing organisation around the world.
Six Sigma is also considered as a business management strategy and a well-structured approach to reduce process variation and waste.
However, there is a limited empirical analysis on implementing Six Sigma approaches within a global supply chain network in a developing country as well as addressing the practical issues encountered by these foreign manufacturing investors.