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QICID: 20770
Title: Lean Inspection Through Supplier Partnership
Copyright: 2006, ASQ
Author: Ericson, Joel
Organization: Boston Scientific, Maple Grove, MN
Subject: Supplier quality assurance,Supply chain management,Customer supplier relationships,Receiving inspection,Supplier partnerships;
Series: Quality Progress, Vol. 39, No. 11, November 2006, pp. 36-41
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Abstract: Incoming inspection is a nonvalue-added activity that does not improve a product, but only identifies products that do not meet standards. One way to reduce incoming inspection is to move from traditional sample inspection to a system in which the supplier bears responsibility for inspecting its own materials. The customer-supplier partnership can be taken a step further to a system of direct to stock, in which the materials move directly from the supplier to the customer's warehouse, bypassing incoming inspection completely. A hypothetical example illustrates how a device company significantly reduced its inspection resources and improved business metrics and efficiency by applying supplier controls and partnerships to lean out incoming material flows.
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