Suppliers offers inputs to the process. The Inputs will define the service and the material, and also information because of this utilized so that you can produce any outputs. This particular method will become defined group of activities that typically adds value into the inputs help to make it outputs consumers. The Outputs will be the services, products, and/or information which are of value to users.

To give an example from India, the Dabbawalas at Mumbai applies the key of six sigma where they take the lunch boxes from the homes in the office workers in the morning, deliver them in the office and returns them back to the room. In the year 2005 Harvard Business School did a research on the Dabbawalas and found out that they commit one mistake in delivering every six million lunch essentials. This shows that how effective may be the use of Six sigma in today’s world.