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QualPro Leadership Symposium

Development of a Supplier Quality Improvement Process (#13)

Using process improvement techniques to build supplier relationships can pay off across your organization.

The Value of Attending This Two-Day Seminar
High-quality chemical products are rarely created from poor intermediates. A retailer's sales will likely suffer if the merchandise it purchased is late or back ordered. A telecommunication company's network reliability will almost certainly deteriorate if it is using defective cable. A direct mail effort will fail if the mail house doesn't deliver the catalogs properly to the post office.

Like it or not, the results of any organization are shaped not only by its own activities but also by the activities of its suppliers.

In this seminar, you will learn how to use MVT^® tools to make better supplier and sourcing decisions, and establish more effective measures and standards. You will learn how to work as a team with your suppliers to understand their level of performance and improve it if needed. By learning to build a win-win relationship with your suppliers that is based on facts and data, your organization can spend less energy on firefighting and problem solving, and more on activities that increase sales and reduce costs.

This is a wonderful seminar for purchasing and operations personnel, or anyone else who interacts with internal or external suppliers. Consider attending this course with your suppliers or customers to begin building the kind of relationship from which both of you can benefit.

Course Topics

Establishing supplier measures
Measuring supplier results
Monitoring supplier performance
Evaluating supplier capability
Improving supplier capabilities
Building long-term customer/supplier relationships

Since 1982, QualPro has used Multivariable Testing (MVT®) with 1000+ companies to test 100,000+ improvement ideas. MVT® tests between 20 and 40 ideas simultaneously, accurately predicting the bottom-line impact of potential process changes in weeks. Take existing process initiatives, like Six Sigma, to a whole new level. All process improvement tools and approaches (TQM, DOE, Six Sigma, Re-Engineering, SPC) can be enhanced through the use of Multivariable Testing by QualPro.