Overview
In today’s global economy, manufacturing companies rely on numerous suppliers, vendors, contract manufacturers, and service providers to bring product to the consumer. It does not matter if the product is a simple plastic toy or a complex modern age aircraft, or the latest in consumer electronics and gaming to food products or medical devices. Managing the quality of your end product through its entire life cycle and protecting your brand is becoming ever so challenging in today’s litigious society that is flush with regulatory compliance mandates.

How do you effectively manage quality in a complex environment that companies face today? The news about product recalls in recent months – from pet food to produce, and lead contamination to tainted meat products - is still fresh in everyone’s mind. 

As a manufacturer, you need real time visibility into quality metrics across your entire value chain.   As the brand owner, you need visibility into your manufacturer and supplier quality and process metrics. 

You have to contain quality issues at the source as much as possible to reduce your overall manufacturing costs. You need an enterprise quality management solution that extends not just across your own facilities and organizations but also links critical data, processes, and metrics across your supplier network and your transportation network – so you can inspect, detect, and contain quality issues before they become a nightmare.

No matter how many suppliers you have, or where they're located around the world, you can cost-effectively include them in all your quality initiatives with a click of a mouse and an Internet connection to have instant collaboration and visibility with your supplier network.

The AssurX SQM solution offers the following key advantages:

• Capturing real time data at the supplier source: Track lots, operators, suppliers, and material movements along with process and product trace information in real time across your supply network
• Automated workflows and best practices business processes that link key product and process metrics across the value stream
• Real time trending with dashboards and analytics for business intelligence.  Closed loop quality management processes across the supply network
• Reduced total cost of ownership. AssurX provides off-the-shelf functionality with pre-configured business process templates that meet most of your business needs. Our qualified engineering services staff is a phone call away to help you configure the system your way and help train your users.
• Reduce your cost of manufacturing by reducing rework, bad shipments, by ensuring quality at the source.

A comprehensive solution, the AssurX SQM system offers the following key features that are built-in, right out of the box such as:

Built-in Business Performance Metrics/Management Dashboards: Unlike other systems that rely on third party tools to generate reports and metrics, AssurX SQM comes with user-configurable built-in dashboards, metrics and ad-hoc query functionality that allows for real-time trending and analysis.

Approved Lists and Supplier Score Cards – Manage your supplier base with specific information related to each supplier and monitor their performance with scorecards.

Incoming Inspection, Issues, and CAPA – Gain real time visibility to incoming material, parts, subassemblies, or raw material with inspections at the source. Dashboards and analytics with drill down data enable identification of potential issues and identify potential corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).

Nonconformance Tracking – Identify supplier nonconformances resulting from inspections, audits, or other means and track these through to resolution.

Best Practices Workflow: AssurX has simplified and streamlined an end-to-end workflow for processing all event intakes, reportable and non-reportable. In addition, unlimited best practices workflows can be added, and modifications to existing template workflows can be easily done with point-and-click configuration.

Integration with other Systems: AssurX SQM easily integrates with ERP, PLM, CRM, and MES solutions to automate the quality processes and procedures across the enterprise – so quality issues originating at a supplier are immediately notified and acted upon.

Automatic Escalation and Notification – Establish business rules and workflows to ensure timely escalation and notification of problems before they become real issues. Suppliers can also respond to issues and resolve problems faster.

Compliance – AssurX SQM is validated and comes with IQ/OQ validation templates. Our professional services group can perform your validation and help you with creating your PQ based on industry best practices by following the latest regulatory guidelines. AssurX SQM is 21 CFR Part 11 compliant for FDA regulated companies.

The AssurX SQM solution is available as either OnDemand (SaaS) or OnPremise. Click here to request a demo today!