Supplier Quality Assurance Requirements

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To meet the supplier quality requirements, the organizations dealing with automobile supplies have to implement international standard ISO and TS 16949. This helps them to trade in global markets. International Automotive Task Force and members of ISO TCand176 have made this standard jointly. ISO and TS 16949 is based on ISO 9001, which is considered to be the best quality standard. The aim of this standard of maintaining and assuring quality is to improve all the areas of supply chain management.

This standard of assuring quality is recognized by many leading names in the automobile industry. The standard is primarily meant for the entire automobile industry. Other industries dealing with manufacturing and supply of customer specific parts can also benefit from this standard. It aims to satisfy the quality assurance requirements
of all the suppliers.

Benefits Of ISO and TS 16949

One Quality Standard

Since only one quality standard is accepted by the automobile industry, it eliminates the need to follow multiple standards and conduct the associated quality maintenance and assurance audits.

Global Trading

It instills more confidence in companies to outsource their requirements to organizations in other countries. When the organizations outsource their work to ISO and TS 16949 certified organizations, they are assured that the quality of the processes and products will be of high-quality.

Process And Product Quality Improvement

It requires the organizations to adopt the process approach in their Quality management systems. The organizations have to keep the quality maintenance systems in place so that they can meet the customer requirements. For this, they define, measure, review, and document their quality systems. The entire workforce, from the top management till the executives participate in the process to continuously improve their systems and services. The organizations also strive to reduce costs while maintaining quality. There are continuous efforts to reduce the cycle time and wastage. The manufacturers also ensure that their vendors conform to all requirements of ISO and TS 16949.

Compliance To Customer Requirements

Following this quality standard ensures that the products are made according to the customer requirements in every aspect. Various inspections and audits are conducted regularly to ensure that the various departments in the organization are following the quality management systems as laid down. Process and product audits are conducted by internal and external auditors.

Increased Efficiency

The quality systems of manufacturing and other facilities are consistently upgraded to meet quality assurance requirements of the customers. Hence, this quality standard increases the efficiency of the organization.

More Business

Organizations that are ISO and TS 16949 certified have satisfied customers. They have more probability of getting business from the local as well as overseas customers.

Saves Time

Sine there is no need for different customer requirement audits it saves the time of the organization. It also reduces the paper work in the organization. Hence, it results in lower administrative costs.

ISO and TS 16949 certification is given for specific areas of the organizations that deal with the manufacturing and servicing of the products. To get ISO and TS 16949 certification, the organization should first read the requirements of the standards and then develop its quality management systems. The process should be documented and then implemented. Some organizations take the help of consultants for preparing, implementing and reviewing the entire supply QA requirements process. The last step is to apply for certification to an authorized institution.

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