How a supplier management solutions software will help you in maintaining a good supplier relationships — Electronic Quality management

A consumer faces many challenges in supply chain management, here is the list and the ways to overcome.

Structure of the organisation

In previous trend, the structure of an organisation used to be very basic.

There would be some vendors and not so-many sub contractors for the vendors. But now the scenario has changed, “perfection made human life complex”.

Now a vendor in USA serving to Canada is getting his supplies from China.

These suppliers might have some other vendors. The structure of such an organisations increase in complexity every day. These are relationships of depth end.

This is a challenge to a supplier to keep a track of this in terms of quality and sustainability.

A Suppler management solutions software can mitigate this problem.

Compliance Requirements

The consumers are Worried about the Compliance with the regulations like ISO 9001, AS 9000 ISO etc from their vendors

This will be a major challenge in maintaining quality of the final output.

The Document management solution integrated with CAPA and the Non- conformance is the solution for such an issue.

Sustainability in terms of fair trade, certifications can also be taken care with such integrated system.

Supplier’s Facility inspection/ assessment

The Supplier’s facility is where your product comes from. The facility should have a good production quality, or else your end product will not be up to the mark.

Pre-qualification of the sites or ware houses which are supplying to you is a must.

with a supplier management solutions software on a cloud is the key.

With this you can categorize the audits and carry multiple audits on things like compliance, quality updates, weather they are up to date with the current trends etc.

Communication Gap

Suppliers and consumers should be in a collaborative environment to drive competitive advantages of modern corporations.

Channels of communications should be open and strong to keep you and your suppliers on the same page. The supplier management solution software mitigates this challenge.

The suppliers will have a provision to upload their documents from their end.

suppliers of the suppliers can build out your supply chain management portal as well.

this helps in Responding to the events, CAPA’s Non conformances and self evaluations, self awareness audits.

Data Driven Decisions

What determinations can be made and who are the best suppliers.

The decision making on which suppliers to choose will be a very big challenge.

Strategic sourcing with prescriptive analytics can be the answer.

In a supplier management solution the risk management, audits, Non-conformance all are integrated for evaluation of the processes. This enables you to take a data driven decision.

Originally published at http://quality-management-info.over-blog.com.