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Examples of How Supplier Quality Management System Implementations Pay Off

GlobalTranz

The first post in this series broke down what is supplier quality management and the steps to evaluate suppliers and the second post gave you insight into the metrics to look out for by 6 major industries. Other factors-such as poor tooling and equipment as well as basic communication challenges-can contribute to poor quality.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #5

Supply Chain Trend

We pulled in all a colleague out of our Cleveland office “Don” (a near retirement manufacturing expert) for some additional perspective. Unlike many algorithmic “black box” tools (e.g. Done correctly they see how and S&OP process is different and it amplifies the effectiveness and usefulness of those tools they already have.

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Introduction to Razorleaf, Arena’s Custom Integration Partner

Arena Solutions

That company is mainly based out of … if we had a headquarters, we would say Akron, Ohio, or out of Cleveland, Ohio. This started as a batch processing engine for us and then as we pushed on, we’ve also done integration and with other tools. Like I said earlier, we’ve been around for quite a while, 20 years, 21 years.