...supplier development

Supplier Validation/Qualification

We help make sure your suppliers start off on the right foot.

When placing your bet on a supplier, it is best to be informed on the supplier’s capabilities to provide the products and/or services in a sustainable quality, delivery schedule, and cost fashion. Regardless of how little a role a supplier may play in your overall value-stream, they still represent a link in your chain. If they fail, so may you.

The IPL Group provides services in the area of supplier validation and qualification.

Supplier validation ensures the basic capabilities required of the supplier are present and functioning. Supplier qualification assesses the supplier’s ability to sustain performance to the expected quality, delivery, and cost requirements. Tools such as statistical process control are applied, as are more basic controls of quality and production management. Our experience discounts the fluff and focuses on the aspects of the supplier’s system that make a difference.

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