Category Archives: Supply Chain

Which of your suppliers are helping meet your quality and customer requirements and which are not?  Having tools in place to understand impacts, both positive and negative, from the supply base is critical to ensuring you meet your customer requirements. Translating key metrics that drive your business to the supply base and ensuring each of the suppliers is providing metrics and data to monitor their performance will enable a higher level of performance and be a guide to understand which suppliers are generating quality or other issues and need support.

The strength of the Supply Chain for every manufacturing business is critical to driving performance. Working with suppliers to drive improvement into their processes improving quality, cost, and on-time delivery will directly flow upward to the manufacturing and assembly businesses utilizing the improved supplier. The sometimes-hidden cost that erode earnings from poor performance of the supply chain can be turned into a positive if these suppliers develop strong systems and consistent performance.