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Quality Control

The Lighthouse Quality Control module enables you to manage QC and compliance anywhere within your global supply chain.

By enabling you to collaborate directly with suppliers, you can be confident that best practices and production standards are being met. The module enables the communication of assessment criteria and assists in improving performance by holding suppliers accountable for quality issues that result in costly rework or reprocessing.

Key benefits:

  • Improves the management and scheduling of audits.
  • Increases visibility of "held up" stock offshore enabling early decisions on corrective actions (e.g. air freight.)
  • Monitors and controls supplier audits to ensure ethical, environmental and working standards are being adhered to.
  • Manages quality and compliance therefore reducing costly rework and returns.

Features

  • Automates audit scheduling for first or high risk POs.
  • Enables the communication of stringent test and audit process and procedures.
  • Records audit details & results.
  • Assigns cost responsibility for rework associated with audit failures.
  • Enables supplier score card analysis based on supplier compliance.
  • Record multiple origin and destination audits against one PO/shipment.
  • Monitors and analyses the impact of shipping fit for purpose versus the cost of reprocessing in the UK.
  • Records requirements for and results of industry standard and customer specific audits.

Management Information

  • Automated email and dashboard alerts to audit failures.
  • Automated email and dashboard alerts to goods awaiting audit.
  • Supplier audit failure analysis and reporting.
  • Charging back reporting for rework and reprocessing.
  • Audit schedule reporting.

This module is one of many available in the Lighthouse system. To discuss your business requirements in more detail with an ediTRACK adviser, contact us today.