customer-supplier relationship

customer-supplier relationship

the proposition within TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM) that the customer-supplier chain is continuous within and exterior to the organization. In effect this means that an individual managing a machine on the factory floor has as a supplier the individual at the preceding operation and is therefore a customer, as he (or she) is also the supplier to the individual at the following process.
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