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Protect your supply chain with quality data you can track and trace.

Improve yield through supply chain accountability.

The GSQA® "Software as a Service" solution is focused on supplier quality and material performance that drive business success for quality-oriented companies. GSQA simplifies your ability to extend your quality assurance processes to your direct suppliers. • For those companies with extended production supply chains GSQA provides material-movement tracking, quality characteristics compliance, supply chain partner scorecarding and one-click traceability in a multi-tiered supply chain. Known as Supplier Quality Assurance and Supply Chain Quality Management this emerging application area offers a solution to the diverse, sometimes incoherent, data trails of COAs, nonconformance reports and all the certification/audit documents in mass called supplier quality.

GSQA, Global Supplier Quality Assurance, is the first web-based system that can reach to all corners of your supply chain. Accessed currently by suppliers and enterprise plants in 70 countries, our customers have a view of supplier quality by material, by location, by time frame, by name, by shipping plant, by receiving plant, by comparison to other suppliers and by product genealogy trace. • Provided with online quality collaboration, your suppliers and supply chain partners quickly and efficiently understand the effects of their material variability on your world and eventually on your company’s production yield and product success. GSQA provides you the data to hold them accountable.

The GSQA solution transforms your quality aspirations into global business value:

GSQA delivers supply chain intelligence using your supply chain partners' data. It streamlines communication across your supply chain, including your direct material suppliers, their suppliers, your co-manufactures, your feeder plants, your finished products plants, and your customers.
GSQA gives you the business intelligence you need to identify risk before it impacts your production.
GSQA produces ROI in several areas where savings are generated such as the following:

1. Reduced plant disruptions: with GSQA’s Advanced Ship Notice (ASN) accompanying the e-COA®, you know the goods are on the way and they are compliant with your specifications. You know their “control” trending and SPC status . . . as valid for supplier quality as for WIP and finished goods.

2. Reduced scrap event costs: with GSQA under-performing materials do not make it to production. And if they do, our web-based nonconformance management module allows the supplier to be informed quickly that their materials are not performing as promised and to offer a resolution.

3. Reduced costs of reporting: less paperwork is in play since data is managed online with standard GSQA reports available and flexible queries with a few clicks.

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Issues solved by SaaS GSQA in supply chain quality

COA® processing managed manually?: Whether you are a process manufacturer or purchasing finished goods, you probably need some sort of documentation for each shipment, whether it is a Certificate of Analysis (COA) or Certificate of Compliance (COC). These documents need to be present for each shipment. How do you track COA’s and COC’s for each shipment across a global supply chain, and produce those documents upon an audit?
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Material variability holding back stellar performance?: Identically specified materials and components vary as delivered to plants for the same intended purpose. The “same” materials or components from the same supplier with sister plants do not arrive as identical material or components 100% of the time. How do you track individual supplier material variances across a complex supply chain?
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Material specifications evenly distributed?: Manufacturers provide specifications to suppliers to control the finished product quality. In many companies, specification distribution to suppliers varies by plant, supplier, material and where used within the product. How do manufacturers control specification distribution with all of these variables?
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Scorecarding missing supplier/material performance metrics?: Gathering appropriate information and measuring suppliers on compliance, material quality and supplier development can be limited by the systems that you currently have in place. Unfortunately, if the information is difficult to gather, it may never be used to measure suppliers, even if the information is critical to supplier performance. How do you efficiently gather the necessary data to better measure your supply chain?
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Supplier qualification and compliance a head-ache?: All companies have supplier documentation requirements. These can be a simple copy of a local inspection to a lengthy questionnaire concerning product and food safety. How do you get timely responses with as little effort as possible? How do you eliminate chasing your suppliers for documents that they need to provide as a part of doing business?
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Managing and tracking supplier nonconformances and corrective actions?: When there is a problem with inbound materials, you need to inform the supplier of the infraction as soon as possible. Not proactively managing these events impacts production yields. Unfortunately, gathering and sharing nonconformance conditions is difficult and time consuming. How do you efficiently address the incident with all of the appropriate information, as well as share it with the offending supplier? How can you efficiently track the results across multiple suppliers, manufacturing facilities and products?
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Comparing "good product" test results with "bad product" characteristics to improve yield?: Finished product characteristics vary widely based on a broad number of factors. The key to eliminating variation is to find the root cause, whether it is material-based or process-based. One method is to compare the characteristics of an “acceptable” finished product with an “unacceptable” finished product and determine what is different. What data do you need to make these comparisons? How difficult is the data to gather? How quickly can you make changes once the data is found and analyzed?
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Need to see material/product trend charts and supplier process performance?: As enterprises become more dependent on their supply chain partners, material quality assurance becomes even more critical. Not only do you have to understand the material characteristics, but, understanding the testing methods and the supplier’s processes (and the myriad of production variables) becomes critical. How do you track this information to alert when your suppliers drift “out of control”? What kinds of tests do you use to begin to understand variability and how it affects your processes?
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Is your supply chain now multi-tiered with no upstream quality visibility?: As outsourced manufacturing continues, the extended supply chain requires finding suppliers for less expensive materials. This invites contaminated or counterfeit materials to enter the supply chain unbeknownst to the final market-facing enterprise. How can you minimize the resulting risk associated with lower cost raw materials?
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Is traceability no longer a local problem?: Tracing the product process inside the four-walls of a manufacturing facility from receipt to ship-to location is no longer sufficient in the world of extended supply chains. Sharing quality data across these supply chains presents several challenges. How do you manage material quality data and process across multiple facilities with disparate systems?
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