Supplier Quality
“Supplier quality — two perspectives, one goal: excellence.”
A stable supply chain with high quality standards is essential to sustainably ensure security of supply, cost efficiency, customer satisfaction, and competitiveness. Strong quality capabilities on the supplier side, in turn, strengthen long-term customer relationships, create market advantages, and reduce complaints as well as follow-up costs.
As a manufacturer, manage suppliers strategically — benefit from our support in building and steering a high-performing supplier network. We help you sustainably safeguard the quality, delivery reliability, and efficiency of your suppliers.
Your Benefits:
- Systematic evaluation and classification of your supplier base
- Risk-based supplier monitoring to ensure quality and delivery standards
- Efficient escalation and improvement processes in case of deviations
As a supplier, systematically strengthen your quality capabilities and achieve excellence — we support you in taking your quality processes to the next level: practical, methodologically sound, and aligned with your customers’ requirements.
Your Benefits:
- Building methodological expertise (e.g., FMEA, 8D, APQP, SPC)
- On-site coaching & training — for direct implementation in day-to-day operations
- Practical quality improvement measures to reduce complaints and cost of poor quality
Services we provide to meet your specific needs:
- Assessment and development of your supplier base — using suitable methods and processes, we support you in evaluating your supplier base. The focus is on building a stable supplier portfolio to avoid risks within the supply chain
- Implementation or improvement of the quality management system and sustainable assurance methods to ensure the highest standards and efficiency. If required, our “Digital Quality Solutions” competency can be leveraged to unlock further potential
- We support supplier-level product realization processes with relevant methods and tools to ensure error-free product and process development and thus a successful start of series production
- Strengthening quality capabilities through tailored training and coaching — also on site
- Improving delivery performance and reducing defect rates through quality improvement programs
- Support in sub-supplier management — from task forces to long-term improvements
