Lyons - Version LQATS -Quality Audit Tracking System

Value

Lyons Quality Audit Tracking System (LQATS) improves your competitive edge by providing real-time information about the quality performance of your suppliers. You can identify problems quickly and work with suppliers to improve their performance so that you can improve your bottom line.Quality audit tracking allows a company to focus specifically on quality audits, creating consistent standards and criteria and measuring suppliers’ performance in relation to those standards. As a result, companies can work collaboratively with suppliers to improve their performance. This results in improved quality and, therefore, improved profits and decreased costs.

One customer, for example, reported a 50% decrease in defects found at its worldwide manufacturing plants as a result of using LQATS.

Benefits include:

• Improved supplier quality performance as a result of responses to consistent measurement
• Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) with audit trail 
• Rapid return on investment
• The ability to respond to problems quickly as a result of real-time data from strategic business locations
• Decreased personnel costs as a result of automating data collection processes
• Improved accuracy of information
• Decreased costs associated with movement of staff to locations where information is to be gathered

Customer Testimonial

When asked by a prospective customer about LQATS, one of our customers wrote:“As you know data collection is sometimes a very cumbersome task, one that not only involves a great deal of effort in getting the data, entering it into a system, but then what do you do with it once you have it. What we have found out is that speed is most critical, in the fact that once the system and procedure on how to collect and enter it has been accomplished, then you can decide on how the system will respond. I will give you an example, normally it would take several weeks to compare data from a factory and my in field auditors, where as now we can achieve this in seconds. We have saved ourselves some very serious amounts of down time due to getting the data we needed in order to make the best decision. Data collection is in fact a preventive in the cost of quality, as you are using that data to make business decisions, whether the data is collected during or after the actual event. The question you have to answer is how much is the data worth, how fast do you want it, and how do you want to see it. We honestly found the solution in the Lyons program. I can assure you that the data we have received from our system has made us a better QA department in our efforts to be preventive driven.

We have also been able to reduce staff in certain areas, due to having our suppliers input data, that was previously done by my staff.

1. Speed of reporting 2. Ability to view data and analyze with in the same system 3. Very user friendly and training was minimal 4. Very flexible in adjustments to our business needs 5. The system helps in answering questions that may normally take weeks to have answers on

I hope this helps”.

Lyons Information Systems, Inc.^®’s Quality Audit Tracking System is a robust, fully web-based software solution with a multitude of useful features that are easy to access and intuitive to use.

LQATS provides real-time entry, tracking, and analysis of quality audit data from Distribution Centers and Supplier plant locations. Features include:

• "Smart controls" to minimize user data entry and retrieval tasks
• Change History tracking
• Quick search of data using many different query parameters
• Real-time global performance monitor
• Fabric Inspections
• Six-sigma analysis
• Disposition log
• Data displayed in both tabular and graphical formats with output to Excel, PDF, and HTML formats

LQATS is managed from inside the company to respond to the company’s business rules and to change as the company changes. Features include:

• User access is easily managed from user-defined Roles
• User management of system support information
• Company administration of user profiles, reports and access
• Defects definitions are easily managed by category and type
• Complete style information management including tolerances, measurements, etc.
• Supports multiple AQL levels
• Ability to manage sampling plans data and map to AQL levels

LQATS provides a real-time, world-wide view of quality performance at support locations of a company.

LQATS includes remote supplier access and secured reporting.

LQATS uses a non-proprietary database (SQL Server) and imports data from in-house legacy systems, including procurement, product, and supplier data.

LQATS provides flexible, robust and intuitive reporting tools in addition to the ability to query the database. These include:

• Audit Defects Breakdown Summary
• Receiving Audit Summary Report
• Overall Supplier Quality Ratings Report
• Overall Supplier Defective Ratings Report
• Overall Location Defective Ratings Targeted Supplier Trends Reports
• Targeted Supplier Performance
• Administrative Reports
• Supplier Performance Comparisons Report
• Supplier Business Review Report of Non-conformance Pareto Chart, OQL By Month Chart and Irregular Data Chart
• Supplier Award - Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum based upon OQL(Observed Quality Level) threshold. 
• Location Quality Performance
• Six Sigma Analysis and Summary
• Customer Returns
• Distribution (Warehouse) Quality Audit 
• Production Line Errors
• Microsoft Power BI Reporting Dashboards
• Concentration Diagram Report for Supplier`s errors
• Outbound Audit Report