Supplier Quality Management Software
With the increasing importance on supply chain compliance, EtQ provides a comprehensive Supplier Management solution that fosters the ability to collaborate with the supply chain, improve compliance and keep your data secure in the process.
EtQ’s platform provides several processes that help to manage and track supplier compliance and foster tighter integration with the supply chain.
- Track supplier receiving and inspection for incoming goods
- Maintain a comprehensive list of suppliers and materials
- Store and maintain any compliance certificates from suppliers and take action on adverse events
As companies continue to grow and expand, they are leveraging the supply-chain more and more to help meet consumer demand. As a result, supplier quality management becomes a critical component to ensuring that products meet strict compliance regulations, are released on time, and within acceptable specifications. Any deviation or quality event arising from poor supplier quality can adversely affect the brand owner, so having visibility into supplier quality is critical to overall brand reputation and perception of quality.
Supplier Management Software Solution by EtQEtQ’s supplier quality management software solution is a set of integrated modules and processes designed to increase visibility and traceability of supplier compliance processes, involve suppliers in the process of quality management, and mitigate supplier risk. Supplier inspections, monitoring, supplier rating, and supplier corrective actions are just some of the integrated processes designed to extend quality management down the supply-chain.
Receive. Inspect. Rate.Having the ability to ensure suppliers are maintaining a high level of compliance is important, and EtQ has several processes that foster tighter compliance with suppliers
- Track receipt of materials and set inspection business rules
- Build measurement activities dependent on past supplier performance
- All supplier activities feed into a comprehensive Supplier Rating Report
- Collect quantitative and qualitative supplier rating information
One of the key areas to achieving supplier quality is in risk management. EtQ’s risk management platform is designed to build risk capabilities within the supplier processes, and enable organizations to quantitatively assess supplier risks. Through risk-based supplier rating, companies can add risk assessments as part of the supplier scorecarding process, provide a more objective means of supplier assessment. Risk tools are able to be applied throughout the supplier management process, and provide an added dimension to inspection and monitor, risk-based supplier reporting, and overall mitigation of supplier risk through EtQ`s Quantiative Risk management tools. The overall goal is to enable organizations to have a objective and repeatable means of selecting the suppliers that pose the lowest risk to their business.
Achieving Supplier Collaboration With The Reliance Cloud PortalOrganizations want to incorporate suppliers into the overall quality management process, but cannot afford to have them access their internal systems. To overcome this challenge, EtQ has developed the Reliance Cloud Portal, which is a cloud-based environment which enables suppliers and customers to access a secure environment that displays only the information that pertains to supplier quality management. The system then is able to integrate with your internal systems, which allows you to send information to suppliers, without them ever having access to your internal Reliance supplier quality management software system.