GSQA ROI
GSQA brings all of your data into one location to reduce disruptions that rob your factory of margin, quality and productivity. By improving productivity, eliminating disruptions or enhancing supplier relationship management activities, your factory can save millions by eliminating waste and unnecessary overhead?
How do you perform root cause analysis on factory disruptions? What activities do you pursue to improve productivity? How do you improve your supplier relationship management?
Improve Productivity
By tracking lot level material quality data and tying it to production settings, GSQA allows you to see the characteristics that result in both high and low production yields. This enables you to benchmark productivity, and manage the inputs so that your processes are optimized. Instead of relying on intuition GSQA brings you the data to make informed decisions on the causes and effects within your factory.
- What are the input variables and data patterns for those lots which produced a customer return? GSQA ties supplier material characteristics and process settings to production results. This correlation shows the exact conditions which produced the most desired (or undesired) results.
- What material characteristics are most likely to produce goods of the highest quality? Which supplier provides those materials? GSQA tracks the suppliers and their materials to help you determine the best and worst suppliers. This helps you rationalize your supplier base with empirical data on your supplier's performance.
- What was common about the days when the factory had a high scrap incidence? What was my yield when a specific operator was involved? GSQA demonstrates the relationships between material, labor and process that drive high and low yields.
- How is my yield affected by how close the material is to the specification? Which specifications can I broaden because it has no effect on customer satisfaction or yield? By understanding the characteristics that determine a high yield or quality, you may be able to reduce your spend because you may be able to loosen specifications.
- How have my suppliers and their shipments affected my productivity since my last supplier audit? GSQA helps you see non-material related events that may affect supplier material quality.
Eliminate Supplier Disruptions
Are your manufacturing operations disrupted for any of the reasons listed below? GSQA can eliminate many of the supplier disruptions by streamlining the collection and distribution of critical supplier data required to make your operations more efficient.
- Missing paperwork from your suppliers? With e-COA and Advanced Shipment Notification, supplier paperwork is always available.
- Incorrect materials from your suppliers? Through Specification Management, GSQA prevents incorrect materials from reaching your dock.
- Materials do not meet specifications? e-COA and Specification Management prevent unknown or out-of-specification materials from infecting your factory.
- Materials are late? GSQA provides Advanced Shipment Notification, allowing you to reschedule production based on available materials.
Improve Supplier Relationship
How much time per week does your staff spend on the activities below? GSQA simplifies supplier quality management, enabling your teams to focus on process improvement rather than information consolidation.
- Preparing and tracking Corrective Action Requests for your suppliers? GSQA's integrated CAR (connect to Nonconformance mgmt) feature allows you to open and track corrective actions automatically.
- Communicating specifications with your vendors? Online Specification Management provides a secure, electronic method to collaborate on material specifications.
- Writing supplier quality scorecard reports? GSQA provides a new dimension to supplier scoring, using quality assurance metrics to track a supplier's overall capability.
GSQA ROI Calculator
This calculator allows you to attach hard dollars to the benefits of using GSQA. Click here to download the GSQA ROI Calculator