Quality Improvement Consulting, LLC offers certified RABQSA lead auditors who are professionals skilled at developing and monitoring quality management systems. If you need a supplier audit, either to verify compliance of your supplier’s products and processes or to document the relationship between you and the other company, our expert consultants can assist.

We are also able to help your organization incorporate a supplier auditing process into the development of your quality management system. For more information, please contact us.

Our ISO 9001:2008 Consultants

Quality Improvement Consulting, LLC provides skilled consultants with years of experience to assist with the implementation and training of companies to ISO 9001, and AS9100. Developing quality management systems, performing internal audits, and managing continuous improvement and project management services are just a few of the services we offer. Located in Fountain Hills, Arizona, with satisfied business clients throughout Arizona we are now expending to support the entire Midwestern United States.

Our Quality Management Systems Professionals are experts in the documentation and record management necessary to gain the certification associated with ISO 9001 and AS9100. Consultants from QIC have years of experience in the quality assurance field, with RABQSA certifications, training courses, and areas of expertise under the company's collective belt.

Tactical supplier sourcing can be a lengthy and expensive process as your supplier base expands. Do you struggle with any of the following concerns?

 

• Creating an integrated auditing process aligned with your internal goals and supplier commitments
• Training staff to conduct value added audits that involve more than just filling out a checklist
• Conducting mutually beneficial audits for both you and your suppliers
• How to reduce ever rising travel expenses
• Reallocating internal resources to keep current projects on schedule, while engineers are away conducting supplier audits

Our Supplier Auditing Services help organizations improve their Return on Auditing (ROA) by providing three benefits that aren't usually linked together: lower costs, higher quality and faster service.

Our Supplier Auditing Services can help you manage your supplier quality management systems so that you know your suppliers are always in compliance. We will help to free up your valuable quality resources to focus on strategic supply relationships. Whatever the size of your company, Our Supplier Auditing Services are structured for the flexibility and consistency you need to execute a value-adding audit program. Our auditors are certified specialists in their fields, providing you subject matter expertise, as well as a focus in areas you determine critical. Our auditing approach ensures that every audit we perform for you has specific quality and business goals.

 

Our auditors are certified by RABQSA International and are listed in the IRCA Database. These auditors have a wealth of experience auditing to manageent systems standards such as ISO 9001, AS 9100. Our professional auditors have also been involved with numerous management systems implementations as well, giving you the added value of their experiences to help make your quality systems stonger.

A supplier quality audit is more than just a quick visit and walk through of the supplier’s production areas. Our supplier audit will address all of the following processes:

• Overall Quality Systems Implementation
• Documentation Control
• Records Control
• Customer Satisfaction
• Corrective and Preventive Actions
• Operational Control
• Management Review
• Calibration Control
• Contract Review
• Non-conforming product control

Companies in the aerospace, food, and consumer goods industries are being driven to implement supplier quality management systems that ensure that consumer safety criteria are met. Supplier quality auditing has become a major tool for determining how effective the suppliers quality systems are. Our supplier auditing services can provide a valuable and affordable, professional independent supplier audit service to fit your needs.

Featured Services Include: We have auditors certified to ISO 9001:2008, AS 9100

• Internal Auditing

• Suppier Surveillance Auditing
• Pre-Assessment Audits
• Third Party Auditing

Contact us today for your custome quote 

Supplier Quality Management Benefits, Responsibilities

There are benefits to creating strong relationships with suppliers from a customer’s perspective especially if a standalone supplier quality management function exists. Supplier measurement can take place, risk mitigation exercises (both reactive and proactive) can be accomplished and information and improvements can be shared for common gain. A supplier quality management function can create a community for all those involved , Account Managers, Supply chain Consultants, Supplier Performance Managers,  in which they can integrate knowledge and deliver profit generating opportunities for both organizations through the exploration of additional, above and beyond current contract business opportunities .

Executive involvement is vital to the success of aligning the relevant strategic players to accomplish objectives and form the basis of building  partnerships and ultimately unlocking value for both organizations. The Procurement functions should take the central role in coordinating supplier relationships, at the same time as owning and coordinating the process, authority and technology.

We at Quality Improvement Consulting can assist your organization with your supplier quality management implementation. Let our professionals set you on the right path, so that your customers will have complete confidence that your products and services will always meet or exceed their needs.
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