COPQ
COPQ
COPQ
processes, and products were perfect. In other words Cost of 'not doing it right
the first time.' It includes cost of lost goodwill, and expenses incurred in refund,
replacement, rework, scrapping, etc.
Cost of Poor quality range from 5-35 % of sales.
The language of money improves communication between middle managers and upper
managers.
COQ = COPQ( Internal Failure cost & External Failure Cost) + (Prevention & Appraisal costs)
>70%
1. These are costs associated with deficiencies that are found after product is
received by the customer
2. Also included lost opportunities for sales revenue.
It includes
1. Warranty claims, service engineer revisits, re-repairs
2. Customer complaints, lost accounts
3. Returns, product recalls and patches
4. Credit notes, discounted sales as compensation
5. Bad press, customer demerits, loss of potential revenue, litigation
6. Late or replacement deliveries to customer + transport costs, visits to
placate customer
Control
There is an optimum level of quality costs and this can by identified by estimating
the amount which might economically be gained by an improvement programme
Identification
Calculation
Observation
Planning
Implementation