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Advanced Product Quality Planning – The 5 Phases of APQP

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Updated: August 3, 2023 Published: April 1, 2019 Achieving Customer Satisfaction and Competitive Advantage at Lower Costs Understanding and meeting customer expectations is at the heart of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and are key requirements for any business to be successful. What is APQP?

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Improving Quality Management in F&B: Real Water Recall

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QAD’s Stephen Dombroski outlines lessons learned and suggested avenues for improvement in his recent article in Food Safety Tech , “Recent Recalls Emphasize Need for Quality Management Systems in the Food and Beverage Industry.” Supplier quality management. The need for quality management systems couldn’t be more acute.

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6 Tips to Maintain Quality in Aerospace Manufacturing!

Supply Chain Game Changer

A Tale of Two Companies: Different Quality Management Beliefs! While the aerospace industry may employ the same equipment and techniques as other manufacturing operations in producing parts for spacecraft and aircraft, it requires a significantly higher level of quality standards. Having A Quality Assurance Team.

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5 Qualities of a Reliable Supplier!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Whether you’re starting a new line of products from scratch or looking to revamp your shelves, here are five qualities of a reliable supplier to prioritize. Instead, you can sit and agree on streamlining the supply chain process using quality-control tools to conquer supply chain risks. The post 5 Qualities of a Reliable Supplier!

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How Data Science and Modeling Can Supercharge Your Risk Management

Speaker: Dr. Ken Fordyce, Solutions Director, Supply Chain and Advanced Analytics at Arkieva

To identify these structural shortcomings, you need a quality central planning engine (CPE), and resolving them often requires a change in the economic landscape. What structural data quality is and why it limits rapid intelligent response (RIR). Wednesday, July 14th, 2021 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EDT, 6PM GMT See you there!

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A Look Back at 2021

3PL Insights

As I reflect on 2021, I’m humbled by how far we have come. This year, we continue to emphasize quality management as a top priority. High-quality standards strengthen our operations. This group is critical to our ability to provide the highest quality service to our customers. Our people are the most important asset.

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2021: Manufacturing, a Year in Review

QAD

The Oxford Languages and Merriam-Webster dictionary folks have advanced “Vax/vaccine” as 2021’s word of the year, but we think it really should be “disruption.” 2021: A Year of Continued Disruption…for All Industries. Which were your biggest disruptions in 2021? Manufacturing Challenges and Best Practices.