The importance of integrating your QMS software with other enterprise systems. Strategically connecting business systems can help put quality at the forefront of your organization’s culture using the technology that teams outside of Quality already use daily.
Organizations today face many challenges that change how business is conducted. Businesses are buffeted from all sides by severe global issues such as supply chain disruption and skilled labor shortages.
As a quality professional, you’re constantly under pressure to cut costs, increase margins, respond to changing business needs, and exceed quality expectations for your organization and your customers. An investment in quality management could be the answer to the question, “how do we do things faster, smarter, and more efficiently?”
In highly competitive industries, product differentiation isn’t enough to win new customers and gain market share. It’s all about the customer experience; meeting or exceeding their expectations is the new path to growth. Your product or service is irrelevant if you don’t have loyal customers.
As a quality management professional, you know all too well that your world is in constant flux. With ever increasing customer expectations, a highly dynamic regulatory environment, and supply chains that are more disrupted than ever before, quality is under pressure on all sides.
Whatever your industry or your quality management approach, supplier quality management is a necessity. It doesn’t matter whether you’re making cars or potato chips, or if you use Kaizen or Six Sigma.
A data hub approach is needed to overcome modern challenges and enable quality leaders to pursue quality 4.0 use cases, maximizing ROI. The benefits of an industrial data hub include unlocking the power of big data analytics for contextualized quality data from all stages of the product lifecycle.
Jamie Fernandes, ETQ VP Product Management shares his perspectives on the opportunities and challenges currently facing manufacturers and global supply chains, the importance of harnessing data, the primary projects ETQ is focused on over the next year.
In a recent Forbes article, Morgan Palmer, Co-founder and former ETQ CTO, explains the differences between automated systems that leverage digital tools designed to make processes run more efficiently, and autonomous systems which are trained to adapt to changing environments and make independent decisions from integrated systems and enterprise-wide data.
Visibility and traceability of quality events are crucial to the health and continuous improvement of a modern business.
Quality management extends far beyond end-product quality and involves areas such as training, supply chain management, and governmental compliance. That's why most businesses implement quality management software (QMS) to oversee quality processes.
This guide defines a digital supply chain, targeted risk management strategies, and how digital supply chain management tools increase efficiency.
