Supplier Improvement
Ensuring fundamental improvement of your supplier's performance
Business Challenge
If your suppliers consistently and proactively make improvements to their processes and if they always respond in a timely manner to nonconformances, read no further. But if your company is like most other companies, your suppliers struggle with making needed improvements. How can you improve your suppliers’ ability to progress? Even more basic, how can you feel confident they are responding to nonconformances with robust corrective action?
Solution
How can Unitek Technical Services meet our needs?
Unitek can provide experienced, qualified personnel who can assist your suppliers with improvement activities. When you receive nonconforming product from a supplier or if you document nonconformances during an audit activity, we can utilize these events to help your suppliers improve. Our Technical Specialists are experienced in a variety of improvement methodologies that can provide a structured, documented approach to improvement activities. We will provide personnel that are experienced and qualified with your product line and they will:
- Assist your suppliers to identify targets of possible improvements
- Utilize proven techniques (six sigma, lean, et al) to help your suppliers develop and document improvement plans
- Monitor progress to the plan and assure the plan is implemented
- Determine if the plan was effective in addressing the improvement opportunity or effective in eliminating the cause of a nonconformance
- Assure these activities are properly documented and reported to you.
What are the key benefits?
- Unbiased appraisal of your suppliers’ capability to improve
- Provide needed expertise to assist your suppliers with improvement techniques and tools
- Fundamental improvement of your suppliers’ performance
- Reduced cycle time and improved schedule performance
- Significant cost savings