Productivity and quality: Determinants of competitive position

Improving productivity, product and goods quality is becoming a key factor to create competitive position of enterprises (enterprises). When productivity and quality are guaranteed, products are consumed more, creating conditions for businesses to dominate the market, increase sales and profits.

In the time of global integration and fierce competition among businesses, the application of management systems and tools to improve productivity and quality are solutions to help businesses improve productivity and product quality in order to meet the needs of customers, enhance the position and reputation, image of businesses in the market. Typically, Tan A Dai Thanh Group has consistently applied and successfully maintained advanced models, tools and management systems; investing in equipment scale, closed modern machinery line, imported from Europe for production and business. As a result, Tan A Dai Thanh has become one of the leading corporations in producing household metal and water equipment in Vietnam.

Improving product quality is also the target throughout the process of production and business activities of Viet Duc Steel Manufacturing Joint Stock Company. The company has optimized creative capacity, improved technology; Viet Duc steel production technology line has been invested 100% in synchronization, the most modern and advanced in Vietnam today, etc. The application of advanced management tools has contributed to improving productivity, The quality and competitiveness of Vietnamese-German steel products on the market.

According to experts, in order for the country to develop faster and more sustainably, to close the gap with the leading countries, it is essential to improve the competitiveness of the economy, each industry, enterprises and products. In particular, the most important is productivity and quality, especially the product quality of businesses when the level of development is higher and higher, customer requirements are increasingly diverse and rigorous.

The issue of improving productivity and quality has also been concretized in the orientations of the Party and Government and most clearly reflected through the implementation of the National Program “Improving productivity and quality of products and goods.” of Vietnam enterprises to 2020 ”(Program 712); Project “Improving productivity and product quality, industrial goods”, etc.

From the perspective of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ms. Kieu Nguyen Viet Ha – Department of Science and Technology (Ministry of Industry and Trade) – said that the Ministry of Industry and Trade has chosen an appropriate direction in the process of implementing the Productivity Enhancement Project. and product quality of Industry and Trade, identifying businesses as the focus of the project implementation activities. In terms of quality, the priority content of the Ministry of Industry and Trade is to focus on developing and perfecting standards and regulations. This is not only a tool to support the management of commodity products of management agencies, but more importantly, one of the important directions to improve and innovate technology for businesses.

For increasing productivity, the priority content of the Ministry of Industry and Trade is to deploy propaganda and awareness raising activities in applying productivity tools and systems at enterprises. “To help businesses have a visual view of benefits from the application of solutions to improve productivity and quality, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has focused on supporting businesses to deploy pilot models. Specifically, support businesses to apply modern quality management systems, advanced quality improvement tools ”- Ms. Kieu Nguyen Viet Ha emphasized.

According to experts, it is necessary to step up propaganda and raise awareness for businesses about activities to improve productivity and quality; deploying point models applying one or several improvement tools and systems of a fundamental nature to the improvement activities of enterprises, priority subjects are small and medium enterprises, etc.

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