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An Analysis Of Iso 9000'S Applicability To Worldwide Warehouse Quality Assurance, Anthony T. Dyess, Henry E. E. Stish Sep 1994

An Analysis Of Iso 9000'S Applicability To Worldwide Warehouse Quality Assurance, Anthony T. Dyess, Henry E. E. Stish

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This study examines the applicability of ISO 9000, a world-wide quality standard, to the quality assurance procedures being built into a new Foreign Military Sales FMS program. This new program, the Worldwide Warehouse, is an Air Force Security Assistance Center AFSAC attempt to assist FMS customers in reducing excess materiel inventories. Areas of investigation include ISO 9000s international acceptance, its ability to ensure quality products, and a case study of SHARE, a NATO initiative which employs ISO 9000 in quality assurance and is dramatically similar to the Worldwide Warehouse. The researchers conduct an exploratory study using a literature review and …