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Comment on For Supplier Scorecard Success: Develop a Process by The Importance of Scorecards for Partner Performance Management « The Inovis Blog

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:01:07 +0000

[...] Trading Partners trackback I recently came across an article on Value Chain’s website about supplier scorecards. With all of our recent partner performance management talk on Twitter and Linkedin recently, this [...]

Comment on If Your Supplier’s Work Environment Is Unsafe, What Do You Do? by Mike Oswalt

Mike Oswalt — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:30:25 +0000

When it comes to safety, it is not a tricky question. Safety comes first. It is unethical to turn a blind eye to a safety hazard. In your everyday life you would alert a fellow citizen to an unsafe condition. This is no different. Knowing what the right thing to do is, is not the challenge, doing the right thing is. Doing the right thing is at the core of ethics. I don’t want to sound like a Pollyanna but, success comes from doing what is honest and right.

Comment on Smart Supply Chain Move or The Turning of the Screws on Machinists? by Billy

Billy — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:42:19 +0000

It may be all of the above, or a calculated move to ensure capacity for the U.S. Government and a yet to be seen 787 Tanker option. Just a thought…………

Comment on Is Toyota’s Brand Getting Rusty? by Is Toyota's Brand Getting Rusty?

Is Toyota's Brand Getting Rusty? — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:00:03 +0000

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Comment on Is Toyota’s Brand Getting Rusty? by Toyogal

Toyogal — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:55:27 +0000

I heard that the floor mat issue only happened with improperly installed floor mats or aftermarket floor mats. Properly installed Factory floor mats never caused a problem. I admire Toyota for still taking initiative and addressing an issue that protects us from ourselves, so to sppeak!

Comment on You Know You’re At a Lean Conference When… by Warwick carter

Warwick carter — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:12:55 +0000

I tried implimenting 5S in our childrens rooms (6, 12 & 14).

Involvement, Standards, Audits, Follow up – all failed. I think it’s easier with employees.

At the end of the day closing the bedroom doors achieves a low cost solution to my stress, and their inability to find things an object lesson for them that works better than my training.

Comment on You Know You’re At a Lean Conference When… by Karen Wilhelm

Karen Wilhelm — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:47:12 +0000

How about going home and regaling family members with examples of lean and how they could transform their work until someone finally tells you to stop?

BTW-nice to meet you there.

Comment on You Know You’re At a Lean Conference When… by Valery Zelixon

Valery Zelixon — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:24:20 +0000

I wish these principles would be applied to healthcare management, especially when it comes to paperwork. We would all be better off.

Comment on When Customer Focus and Green Collide by Bruce Spurgeon

Bruce Spurgeon — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:28:06 +0000

I believe we have most of the tools, but will need to have leadership to do the “right thing”. A complete view of the supply chain often starts with the “Voice of the Customer”. Some customers are already “green”, many others like the idea but it is not deal maker/breaker and others just want what they want (perhaps that want is lowest cost). If we start with VOC and build a lean, six sigma, TOC, green supply chain, then the concurrent marketing efforts can be effective. If costs are way out of line with the mainstream market, a hybrid approach could ease the transition. By this I mean that some portion of the supply chain is “converted” to green, both as a product strategy and as a test bed for the future. This may increase the overall cost but is a “right thing” both for sustainability and product futures. This is a “surface” comment as there is much more depth to the subject, but I believe we can make this transition.

Comment on Want to audit us? It’ll cost you. by Sherry Gordon

Sherry Gordon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:47:40 +0000

Thanks for your comment.

The FDA requires that a biotech company ensures that the identity, quality and purity of all raw materials used to produce Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API’s) or drug products are acceptable (i.e. within specification) and known before use. Because of this requirement and the potential risk associated with patient safety, it’s important that biotech companies have a robust supplier quality program that includes such things as:

– Documented specifications approved by Quality
– Vendor Qualification program
– In-coming Quality Control program that ensures the identity, quality, and purity of raw materials received
– Audit program that monitors suppliers to ensure the on-going reliability of the identity, quality, and purity.

On-site audits are an important way to verify and ensure that the above elements are in place.

It’s all about demonstrating to the FDA control of the company’s processes, one of which is supplier quality. The FDA has issued several warning letters to biotech companies regarding this issue because patient safety may be jeopardized (i.e., remember the deaths from tainted heparin?)

-Sherry Gordon