Patrick Brewer and David Rose have decided to open the Rose Apothecary in the small town of Schitt's Creek. In their store, local residents are able to purchase an assortment of re$-$

branded local items and crafts ranging from lotions, shampoos, body milks, cat$-$hair scarves, coffee, tea, toilet plungers, and other various items. Obviously, in order to be successful,

Patrick and David must employee quality assurance measures to make sure their products aren't causing rashes or are otherwise defective.

Possible ideas for quality assurance:

Control charts

Benchmarking

Statistical sampling

Flowcharting

Cause and effect diagrams

Histograms

Pareto charts

Review the various types of quality measures listed above and detailed in Chapter $12,$ then discuss and diagram which specific method you would recommend that they use for

quality control.

Please refer to the data set of monthly inventory sales in the provided Excel worksheet.

For this assignment, you will need to discuss AND diagram your selected quality control measure. Your discussion is worth up to $10$ points and your diagram is worth up to $10$ points.

NOTE: If you select benchmarking as your quality measure, assume that you are benchmarking against a fictitious competitor in a similar industry. To diagram this quality measure,

you will need to create a small set of fictitious data which can then be compared to Rose Apothecary.ROSE APOTHECARY

MONTHLY SALES

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