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Manufacturing organizations across multiple industries are continually pressured to balance maintaining superior product quality with reducing costs and maintaining margins. Fortunately, the technology needed to deal with these challenges is available.

Enterprise quality management software (EQMS) solutions have already proven themselves very effective for manufacturers. By optimizing and automating quality processes, an EQMS gives the right people visibility into relevant tasks and helps ensure they perform required tasks within allocated times, leading to reduced cycle times, and reduced wasted material and resources. In addition, organizations can also reduce costs by tightening cycle times, removing unnecessary manual tasks and optimizing processes.

A large amount of quality event data is captured and stored in an EQMS. Beyond just querying information about a specific quality event, what additional information can be derived? Can we quantify the reduced cycle time or identify areas for improvement? Is there a way to provide our procurement specialists with up-to-date supplier scorecards for our vendors to help ensure product quality?

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