Vendor Development
The quality of product plays a very important role for any project and manufactures having responsibility to ensure that processes at their vendor/supplier meets the defined standards. In the current scenario during development process customers are facing new challenges to identify a suitable supplier according to part, quality, cost & delivery requirements. Also supplier are located far from the customers site. Therefore independent and rich experienced Third party is required to identify correct suitable vendor and further to evaluate them as per exact required standard. So the well qualified experienced sourcing Engineers and SQE teams of Autocal Engineers takes responsibility and provides high level systematic and independent vendor assessment as per defined standards to met the customer requirement. Which definitely helped customer to finalize correct source & develop the part as per targeted quality, cost & time line.
Activities Covered for Vendor Assessment:
- Identify the sources as per customer requirement & part geometry.
- Assessment and evaluation of supplier for plant facility and set-up, current manufacturing process and quality system, comparable current product being manufactured, material handling, logistics, financial status and plant location.
- Should costing / part cost estimation.
- Best manufacturing techniques.
- Current internal & customer PPM.
- Approved certification and codes.
- Current and future capability & capacity planning.
- Material and product control.
- Overall 5S implementation & monitoring with in the plant.
Advantages
- Developing a performance based culture.
- Identify key strengths and weakness of vendor.
- Having overall vendor data for comparison & finalization.
- Confidence for right source finalization.
- First time right quality development as per the targeted time line.
- Facilitating better communication with vendor.