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Manufacturing OperationsStudent:Professor:Course title:Date:Dr. Mike Shipulski (April 1, 2013). When Best Practices Aren`t Best: Yesterday`s Best Practice is not tomorrow`s. Assembly MagazineManufacturers often energetically seek best practices because they have the potential of improving metrics for instance sales, profitability and stock price. Best practices are commonly understood as discrete processes or tools, but they have a hierarchy. Up a level from the discrete tool is a methodology for instance Six Sigma or lean. Up another level is a coordinated set of methodologies making up a framework, for instance how a firm carries out its activities or an essential initiative. There are best practices for every level, and their position within the hierarchy is defined by the problems that they resolve.Organizations commonly seek out best practices for the imperative reason of multiplying the benefit of earlier success, although they are at times pu...