Incoming Quality Control
Quality data control for suppliers leads to comprehensive solutions such as eCOA (electronic Certificate of Analysis) for incoming materials across multiple industries and quality data management on the supply chain. Sub-contractors are increasingly involved in the value added-process and the control of incoming materials has always been sensitive. Before shipping, the suppliers need to provide quality data for example of
- Raw materials
- Standard items
- Subcontracted parts
- Semi finished & bought out components
- Assemblies and subassemblies
to attest their compliance with required specifications or standards.
The semiconductor, electronic, and medical industries serve as good examples, where an eCOA is required to track all materials which have confirmed quality data: T/C, target, tape, gas, pellicle, chemical, quartz, CMP, wafer, photo chemical, ... This leads to a comprehensive quality data management system that helps to accelerate the OEM manufacturing process. It offers them the possibility of production quality improvements of the whole supply chain and defines traceability at a new level. With LineWorks SQM (Supplier Quality Management) camLine offers a new comprehensive solution for eCOA and quality data management on the supply chain.
Your benefits:
- Just in time delivery
- Quality data are available of all incoming goods in use - this enables quality comparison and trend analyses
- Improved communication enables shorter reaction times
- Save human efforts for incoming quality control
- Yield improvement in production
- History and traceability of delivered quality - avoid reshipment activities of material with insufficient quality
Three important supplier benefits:
- SQM implies considerably shorter feedback loops and helps accelerate quality improvement cycles
- Before shipment the supplier receives an interactive confirmation from the OEM about his quality satisfaction with the goods to be delivered
- In case of sporadic quality drops an improvement workflow engine (LineWorks eCAP) guarantees effective OEM support
For more information view our page on LineWorks SQM (Supplier Quality Management).
Visit our session at the Supply Chain World Europe 2010 in Munich that focuses on "Quality Data Management on the Supply Chain".
