Best Practices in Supplier Quality Management

This Supplier Quality Management training is targeted at intermediate-level quality managers who are looking to bring best practices discipline into their supplier quality management and environment. Supplier Quality Management is a critical business process for manufacturers who source components and parts from suppliers, whether the suppliers are just across the street or a continent away.

World-class manufacturers are realizing that to truly leverage a global supply base to reduce costs, a sophisticated supplier quality management system, that gives the manufacturer real-time visibility into the supplier’s process and product quality, is necessary. It takes weeks for a supplier shipment from Far East Asia or Mexico to reach North America and quality issues not discovered and addressed prior to shipment can hurt the bottom line due to high costs arising out of downtime, expedited shipping and inventory carrying charges.

Areas Covered in the seminar::

This session is targeted at intermediate-level quality managers who are looking to bring best practices discipline into their supplier quality management and environment. The format of the session will be a presentation, followed by Q&A. Many examples will be used during the course of the presentation. In the presentation, we will review some of the supplier quality best practices including:

• Measuring Cost of Poor Quality
• Key Supplier Quality Metrics
• Closed Loop Corrective Action Process
• High Performance Audits
• Cost Recovery
• Engaging Suppliers

Who Will Benefit:

• Quality Managers
• Audit Managers
• Quality Analysts
• Supplier Relationship Managers
• Outsourcing Managers
• Vendor Development Managers
• ISO Compliance Managers