Consumer Food Products

Coca-Cola, Business Process Excellence

The Coca-Cola Company is featured in the e-Zsigma March, 2005 Six Sigma Spotlight.Rod Morgan interviewed Ellen Bovarnick, VP Corporate Business Excellence, and asked her all the right questions about Six Sigma at Coca-Cola.Below is an excerpt from the interview: Rod:During…

Consumer Food Products – Industry List

The Consumer Food Products Sector includes the Fortune 500 industries, Beverages, Food Production and Consumer Food Products.

Eight Steps Toward More Accurate U.K. Retail Data

The grocery industry in the United Kingdom could avoid more than £1 billion in revenue losses over the next five years by addressing chronic supply-chain problems, such as overstocking, lost sales from stock shortages, product shrinkage and manual workaround, according to a recent study.

Grapes of Sigma

For those of you who talk Six Sigma at dinner parties, here’s something for your next soiree — Six Sigma wine. I hear it goes well with a fishbone diagram and doesn’t leave that statistical aftertaste like those lower sigma level wines….

Reducing Waste on Chicken Nugget Line – Part 1 of 2

Kahiki Foods had extreme amounts of daily waste on their chicken nugget lines. The daily amount of waste on the line averaged 4,976 pounds – more than Kahiki’s two other major product lines combined.

Reducing Waste on Chicken Nugget Line – Part 2 of 2

This is Part Two of a two-part article about Kahiki Foods' extreme amounts of daily waste on their chicken nugget lines. Part Two follows the completion of the project – the Analyze, Improve and Control phases.

Reducing WIP at a Frozen Food Manufacturer – Part 1 of 2

Part 1 of how a DMAIC project reduced costly work in process at Kahiki Foods, a manufacturer of Asian frozen foods.

Reducing WIP at a Frozen Food Manufacturer – Part 2 of 2

Part 2 of how a DMAIC project reduced costly work in process at Kahiki Foods, a manufacturer of Asian frozen foods.

Six Sigma at Ocean Spray

Ever see the Ocean Spray commercials, Straight from the Bog, with character growers Justin and Henry? According to an Ocean Spray press release last year, the new ad campaign featuring the two character growers has boosted sales six percent year over year.

Six Sigma Donuts at Maidstone Bakeries

"Donuts. Is there anything they can’t do?" Homer Simpson would be proud of Maidstone Bakeries. Striving for the perfect donut.

Six Sigma, Easy as Pie

Last year to celebrate Six Sigma and Thanksgiving, I directed you to a couple of Thanksgiving DOEs. This year let’s talk apple pie. The Bama Companies make a mean apple pie. In fact they make millions of them each year….