
194 Root Cause Analysis: Improving Performance for Bottom-Line Results
80% of the complaints are due to late deliveries of our product to our cli-
ents’ sites. Causes are determined to be a lack of communication between
purchasing and the delivery rm on pickup times and destination times.
We also nd that the delivery rm needs a minimum of 4-hours’ notice to
guarantee on-time delivery and we have been giving them only 2-hours’
notice on many occasions. As a result, we have a meeting between the pur-
chasing personnel and the dispatch personnel from the delivery rm. A
mutually agreed upon procedure is developed to weed out any ...