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Tampa, FL USA, 23rd March 2023: Qualityze is pleased to announce our recent participation in the ISO 9001 and Audits World Conference. The event took place on March 13-14, 2023 and brought together professionals around the globe to discuss quality management and auditing. The ISO 9001 and Audits World Conference is a premier event in […]

Supplier Quality Management : A Comprehensive Approach to Ensure Supplier Quality Across the Organization

When managed well, supplier quality can drive more value for your company by ensuring product quality, lowering costs, improving business credibility, increasing business performance significantly. You can also avoid expensive product recalls and regulatory fines. The key to achieving all these objectives is a dominant supplier quality management solution. It streamlines the supplier processes right from supplier selection.

You must understand that the quality of a product starts at the supplier selection process as the suppliers play a vital role in bringing the product to the market. Qualityze Supplier Quality Management Solution enables organizations to streamline and standardize their supplier-related processes and operational challenges. It allows you to track and manage the supplier qualification process, supplier data, certifications, and more.

With Qualityze Supplier Quality Management Software, you can standardize the processes to:

Track and Manage the Qualification Process for Potential Suppliers and Vendors.
Maintain Complete Records of all the Evaluated Suppliers
Effective Communication with Suppliers to Provide Feedback

Manage Approved Supplier List (ASL)
Prepare and Share Supplier Scorecard
Integrate with Existing ERP System

Supplier Quality Management Overview

Choosing the right suppliers is crucial for your product, as the suppliers are a vital part of bringing the product to market. The ability to identify your suppliers who help you achieve your quality and compliance goals without confusing them with those who don’t is very critical in today’s dynamic and competitive global market. Qualityze Supplier Quality Management makes your supplier-related activities simple. From supplier selection to onboarding and performance evaluation, it helps manage every aspect that can affect product quality and your brand reputation. With Qualityze Supplier Quality Management, you can effectively and efficiently:

Track and manage the supplier qualification process
Manage Supplier Records in a Centralized Repository
Schedule and Manage Supplier Audits
Communicate with your Suppliers to provide Feedbacks

Create Approved Supplier List (ASL)
Prepare and Share Supplier Scorecard
Prepare Supplier Questionnaire
Evaluate Supplier Quality Performance

Track and Manage Qualification Process

A supplier plays an integral part in any organization. Every organization utilizes some type of process to track and manage the supplier qualification process. How quickly a supplier can be qualified is crucial. Within Qualityze Supplier and Vendor Performance Management software solution, the initiation step is the first step in tracking and managing the supplier qualification process. In this step, you can capture all the information about the supplier such as:

Supplier Name
Supplier Category
Site
Location

Created By
Created Date
Supplier Contact
Supplier Type and others

When you save the initiation step, the system will assign you a unique number.

Maintain Complete Records of a Supplier

Several documents and executed agreements are generated during the qualification process. Some of these documents include mandatory certifications, licenses, license agreements, etc.; all of which have expiration dates. Other documents might include Quality Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements (“NDA”), Service Level Agreements (“SLA”), etc. Managing these type of documents are very critical, required, and early notification of documents that have expiration dates lesson risk for your company. In Qualityze, you can easily manage and store these types of documents by storing them as external attachments. Since our system is fully integrated, you can also utilize the document management software and its capabilities.

Manage Approved Supplier List (ASL)

After the supplier is qualified or approved through the qualification process, they will be added to the list of suppliers from whom materials or services are procured. This list is usually termed as an Approved Supplier List (ASL).

Qualityze system will help you to manage the ASL easily. With built-in intelligence to calculate the performance of the supplier by reviewing several criteria sets by your organization’s policy. Performance records of the supplier will help you update the ASL list based on the specified criteria.

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management facilitates quick evaluation and tracking of supplier performance based on standard metrics defined.

Prepare and Share Scorecard

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Periodic review of supplier documents and supplier performance are very crucial. The majority of organizations set criteria for a periodic review. The periodic review will then generate a scorecard or KPI (“Key Performance Indicator”). Additionally, you are able to send your supplier nonconformance emails from Qualityze Nonconformance Management software solution. Hence, communication is improved and strengthens your relationship.

The built-in intelligence calculates the performance of the supplier by reviewing the receiving inspection data, non-conformance data, audit data, etc. The periodic review of these types of data will generate a score card of each supplier that you can then share via email or a supplier portal.

Why Supplier Quality Management is Important?

Supplier quality management is imperative to manage critical functions such as managing supplier information, performance, and relationships. It encourages any organization to:

Measure the Vendor Performance
Manage the ASL List

Notify Vendors for Addressing Challenges Encountered (SCAR)
Ensure Better Collaboration and Communication with Suppliers

How does Qualityze Supplier Quality Management Help Businesses?

Mitigate supplier defects and ensure better performance by streamlining all your supplier-related processes and addressing the operational challenges with Qualityze configurable workflows.

With Qualityze Supplier Quality Management, you can;

Streamline Supplier Qualification Process
Manage Supplier Quality Audits
Manage Approved Supplier List
Quickly Communicate with all Suppliers to Provide Feedbacks
Generate Supplier Scorecard for Improved Performance Visibility

Integrate Supplier Quality System with Document Management System
Integrate Supplier Quality Management with Other Qualityze Solutions
Integrate with Existing Business Systems
Controlled Supplier Quality Records and Data

Streamline Supplier Qualification Process

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management allows you to track and manage the supplier qualification process cycle by creating standardized workflows. You can capture all the essential details like Supplier Name, Category, Site, Addresses, Contacts, Type, Certifications, and more. Using the supplier onboarding questionnaire,

you can verify if all the criteria are met. You can utilize the Supplier Part-Location Matrix to create and maintain parts/services the supplier can provide for different locations.

With Qualityze, you can address the operational challenges while streamlining the supplier-related processes.

Manage Supplier Quality Audits

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management allows you to perform the supplier audit to assess the supplier’s capabilities and proceed with the supplier approval process to get the supplier onboarded formally. Our solution comes with a task scheduler to schedule approvals, reviews and audits on desired intervals. It ensures continuous improvements across the organization.

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management seamlessly integrates with Audit Management System to conduct efficient and effective supplier management audits.

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Create Approved Supplier List 

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management allows you to perform supplier evaluation, based on the criteria specified for selection, performance, and scorecard ratings. It is a holistic approach to manage the Approved Supplier List (ASL).

Our solution allows you to reduce the supplier-related risks through regular audits, inspection checks, performance reviews while ensuring that the approved supplier list is regularly updated.

Quickly Communicate with all Suppliers to Provide Feedbacks

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management allows you to quickly communicate with all the associated suppliers regarding the audit results, process improvements, and other operational issues that could result in quality risks.

The regular and straightforward communication with the suppliers strengthens your business supplier relationships.

Our solution allows you to track supplier performance at regular intervals, helping you identify the areas of improvement and share relevant feedback to the suppliers.

Generate Supplier Scorecard for Improved Performance Visibility

Supplier and Vendor Performance Management software solution

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management has powerful reporting capabilities to provide greater visibility into Supplier Performance, enabling your teams to make smarter and effective decisions. 

With Qualityze, you can analyze inspection results, nonconformances, CAPAs, and audit findings to prepare supplier scorecards. Supplier Scorecard reflects the supplier performance against the criteria you have defined. 

Integrate Supplier Quality System with Document Management System

Qualityze Supplier Quality management seamlessly integrates with our document management system to maintain and manage supplier documents, certifications, agreements, and contracts. You can use pre-defined templates for agreements and supplier-related documents that can be customized to suit your business requirements.

Our solution automatically records audit findings and all the supplier-related information. It further simplifies supplier qualification, supplier corrective action request (SCAR), and other processes.

Integrate Supplier Quality Management with our Audit, Nonconformance, CAPA and Inspection Management System

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management seamlessly integrates with our Audit, Nonconformance, CAPA, and Inspection management system to initiate and manage supplier Audits, NCR’s and SCAR’s.

You can also utilize the Supplier portal to communicate with your suppliers regularly.

With Qualityze, you can streamline the inspection and investigation of supplier processes to avoid nonconformances such as product recalls and improve operational excellence.

Integrate with Existing Business Systems

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management seamlessly integrates with all the existing business systems and third-party applications such as ERP and CRM to collect supplier-related data from different sources. It helps you identify the right suppliers to do business.

Our solution enables you to make smart and informed decisions based on the data collected and analyzed. You can also share the quality data with all the stakeholders involved.

With Qualityze, you can significantly reduce the costs and increase productivity by streamlining and standardizing the supplier workflows.

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Controlled Supplier Quality Records and Data

Supplier and Vendor Quality Management System

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management allows you to keep all the Supplier Quality records and the relevant action plans recorded securely stored on a centralized cloud platform.

Keeping your supplier-related processes documented helps maintain compliance with regulatory standards, including FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, and ISO (e.g., digital records and electronic signatures).

Our solution comes with configurable workflows, allowing you to capture the required details only. It simplifies information processing across the organization.

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management – Standardize the Supplier Qualification Process

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management works for every industry, including – Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Cannabis/Hemp/CBD, Nutraceuticals, Biologics/Biotech, Food and Beverages, Automotive, Hospitality, Defense and Logistics to manage supplier processes, ensuring consistent quality products, and compliance with applicable regulatory standards.

Qualityze Supplier Quality Management Solution comes with;

Centralized Supplier Database
Supplier Part-Location Matrix
Reporting and Dashboards
Supplier Portal
Customizable Supplier Questionnaire

Alerts and Notifications
E-Signature Validation
Seamless Integration
Chatter, and more.

Qualityze EQMS – The Enterprise Quality & Compliance Management Platform to Manage Suppliers’ Performance Globally

In today’s dynamic and competitive global market, having an efficient supplier management process to help you identify your suppliers who are helping meet your quality and compliance goals is critical to consistently delivering quality products. Qualityze Supplier Quality Management Solution streamlines and simplifies the supplier-related processes to ensure the right selection, evaluation, and management of suppliers. It allows you to focus on supplier quality that further ensures product quality, safety, and global compliance.

Qualityze EQMS Suite helps enterprises align their quality processes with their business objectives while mitigating operational challenges. Built on the most powerful and secure cloud platform, Salesforce.com, Qualityze provides unparalleled benefits to improve supplier quality. We empower you to optimize your quality processes by giving you control and confidence in managing your supplier processes, allowing you to focus on business growth opportunities.

Qualityze prepares you to succeed with a next-generation approach to manage supplier-related activities, including assessments, onboarding, approvals, and defects management in a formalized manner.

Experience Qualityze Difference to Optimize Quality

Qualityze EQMS Suite enables you to maintain high quality standards while experiencing difference with:

Configurable Cloud-Based Platform

Qualityze supplier risk and performance management system is a cloud-driven, configurable software that helps the organization to keep a track of their suppliers’ quality and performance, ensuring delivery of quality raw materials. You can customize the fields as per your data needs. The best part is that you don’t need to pay any upgrade or maintenance charges.

Adherence to Compliance Standards

With Qualityze Supplier Quality Management Software, you can check the quality of raw materials as defined under the quality standards of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – 21 CFR Part 820, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) – ISO 9001, ISO 13485, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA), etc. This ensures that your organization will manufacture the goods with all the quality components in them to deliver your customers with nothing but the best.

User-Friendly Interface

The supplier quality management system from Qualityze comes with a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to operate for every user even without much technical expertise. The intuitive interface, therefore, eliminates the training needs for our software while simplifying the process of quality management for you.

Allowing Organizations to Manage and Maintain Supplier Quality Right from Where It Starts

Qualityze Supplier and Vendor Quality Management System is an appropriate solution for organizations to maintain and manage suppliers associated with them. Our solution helps to conduct in-depth trend analyses, supplier performances, and spot recurring problems in a quick and easy manner, ensuring the quality of raw materials going to be used. An organization’s process to track and manage qualified suppliers gets simplified as it enables tracking every fundamental data-sets including Supplier Name, Supplier Category, Site, Location, Created By, Created Date, Supplier Contact, Supplier Type, etc. that you can compare and sort the ASL (i.e. Approved Supplier List).

If you are not paying much attention to the aspect of vendor performance management, you are making a big mistake out-of-the-gate. Get Qualityze Supplier and Vendor Quality Management Software that helps you track and analyze the suppliers based on their performance and prepare an approved supplier list to collaborate and communicate for quality raw materials. For more information about the product’s functionality and features, you can request a product demonstration today.

To know more about Qualityze EQMS , get in touch with us on our contact page and we will get back to you at earliest.