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Register Free →Incoming material performance across sites, judging a supplier on group evidence not one plant.
A supplier judged by one plant is judged on that plant's experience. Across a group they may be excellent at one site and poor at another, which usually says as much about specification and handling as about the supplier.
We consolidate incoming material performance across sites — rejection rate, in-process behaviour, its correlation with finished product defects — so supplier discussions rest on group evidence.
This occasionally exonerates a supplier a plant wanted to drop, and that outcome is worth more than the ones that confirm what was already believed.
Two plants running the same process need different instrumentation, so we survey before we specify and specify before we price. Tell us about the facility and we will come back with a scope stating what is supplied and where our responsibility ends.