Research conducted on the competitiveness of food industry enterprises in Poland indicates a significant gap in potential relative to the needs of meeting EU standards.
In order to prevent formal barriers to competing in foreign markets from arising when product quality meets identified consumer needs, a statistical tool that can be helpful in a competition strategy is presented. The following analysis points to the possibility of expanding the range of applications for control charts in an enterprise as a good tool supporting quality control, ensuring compliance with requirements regarding the monitoring and checking of the declared weight on unit packaging. There is also an additional benefit: these charts can serve as evidence of the supervision conducted and compliance with the requirements in force under EU law.
The article comes from the magazine “Logistyka” 2002/4.