In the midst of the current pandemic, of course, many businesses are feeling the impact of financial decline. However, MSME actors in each region or city this incident could be an opportunity to improve their welfare. Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) have an important role in the economy of Indonesian society. Several aspects of the role of SMEs in the life of small communities, namely, facilities to alleviate the community from the abyss of poverty, means of leveling the economic level of the small people, and providing foreign exchange income. By encouraging MSMEs to upgrade to grades, it can reduce the poverty rate by around 20% or the equivalent of removing 5 million people from poverty. In addition, it can reduce the inequality rate by about 4%. Therefore, support from various parties to improve quality in the midst of the current pandemic is needed. One of the MSMEs that currently has superior products is water hyacinth sandals and woven bags, namely the Anayamandiri UMKM assisted by the provincial Dekranasda. Improvement and improvement of product quality are basic things that must be owned by MSME actors in order to maintain and increase the number of customers. Therefore, a Quality Function Development Method is an approach to customers by creating a Voice of customer and being able to design a house of quality matrix for each UMKM product

Plastic bag is a product that is very often used in everyday life. Plastic bags are one of the biggest contributors to the volume of waste in Indonesia. Therefore, a policy related to the use of plastic bags is called a zero plastic bag. This policy requires plastic bag users to switch to using environmentally friendly bags. This study was conducted to analyze the effect of the zero platic bag policy on Makassar City community behavior related to the environment or green behavior if this policy is applied in the City of Makassar. To determine the effect of the zero plastic bag policy on people's behavior patterns about the environment using the SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) method. Initial identification was carried out by distributing questionnaires to respondents using plastic bags, especially retail consumers in Makassar City. The questionnaire contained green behavior variables which consisted of five variables. Then the results of data collection using a questionnaire are processed using descriptive analysis and then look for the effect of zero plastic bag policies on green behavior using the SEM method. The results of the identification of the influence of zero plastic bag policy based on four variables namely environmental knowledge, environmental attitude, green advertising, and green consumption on green behavior are that of the four variables that have a positive influence on green behavior are environmental attitude, green advertising, and green consumption . The results of this study can be used as policy input and see how effective this policy is when applied in Makassar City.

In Indonesia, many manufacturing industry companies large and small are trying to make products of good quality to the market. This is because only companies that have good product quality can compete and survive. PT. Fajar Makassar Grafika is a subsidiary of Fajar Group that specifically handles newspaper printing production, in carrying out the process of newspaper production there are still many problems with product defects that are not by the standards of the company.The method used in this study is the Six sigma method using DMAIC stages (define, measure, analyze, improve and control). Six Sigma is one of the tools commonly used in product quality control. This method has the concept of setting quality standards until it reaches 3.4 rejects per one million possibilities.Based on the results of analysis with the Six Sigma method it has been known that in the production process there are 5 types of defects, namely blurred mold defects, dirty prints, not registers, folded and torn newspapers with sigma levels obtained at 3.92 with an average damage rate of 7760 for one million productions (DPMO). From the analysis of fishbone diagrams can be known the causal factors of defective products derived from machine, material and human factors. The proposed improvement is done using Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) analysis, so that the company can take precautions and improvements to reduce defective products and improve product quality