Steve McQuality
Quality Engineer
I may have missed an answer to this question during a search of the forum, but here goes anyway...
Does anyone have any advice on how to determine a Critical Supplier? Here are some excerpts from our procedures and how we've defined "Critical" Suppliers and "Critical" Components...
• Critical Component: Any component, having (our company) Part Number, affecting the quality and/or safety of a finished, packaged, or labeled device.
• Critical Supplier list (CSL): A subset of the ASL, determined by Purchasing and/or Quality Assurance, containing single source suppliers or suppliers providing critical components or services to (our company). These suppliers may be based on importance of product, dollar value and/or volume. For service providers, the criteria will be the criticality of the service provided. These CSL suppliers will be part of the periodic supplier performance reviews.
...and what do we define as "periodic supplier performance reviews"?
• (Our company's) goal is to monitor CSL suppliers quarterly and formally review CSL suppliers annually.
• reviews may occur more frequently and may be prompted by internal complaints or objective evidence or a poor rating
• Table 3 lists the categories by which a supplier is evaluated
"Table 3" above refers to the following criteria; 1) Quality - based on incoming inspection and production rejects for "dock to stock" material, 2) Delivery - On Time Delivery adjusted for required or requested changes and 3) Additional Supplier Rating - subject rating of "intangibles" such as customer service, response to non-conformances, etc.
When I reviewed our receipts over the past year, we have approximately 79 suppliers that fit the category of "supplying assigned P/N's" - which if I rated all of these, that's all I'd get done!!
Have we backed ourselves into a corner with these definitions? Some of our P/N'd parts include "off the shelf" inductors, packaging materials, etc. We used to classify suppliers by only dollar amount - but our registrars didn't like that method and in retrospect, it's not really the right way to go about it.
We'd like to pare down this list of 79, but I was looking for some thoughtful advice on a legitimate way to do that without merely putting blinders on and hoping for the best. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I've been revamping our Supplier Qualification program, and have found a Great Tool that I downloaded from the Cove - and it works very well for our current list of 18 "critical" suppliers. However we wanted to review and revise that list. Any thoughts???
-Steve
Does anyone have any advice on how to determine a Critical Supplier? Here are some excerpts from our procedures and how we've defined "Critical" Suppliers and "Critical" Components...
• Critical Component: Any component, having (our company) Part Number, affecting the quality and/or safety of a finished, packaged, or labeled device.
• Critical Supplier list (CSL): A subset of the ASL, determined by Purchasing and/or Quality Assurance, containing single source suppliers or suppliers providing critical components or services to (our company). These suppliers may be based on importance of product, dollar value and/or volume. For service providers, the criteria will be the criticality of the service provided. These CSL suppliers will be part of the periodic supplier performance reviews.
...and what do we define as "periodic supplier performance reviews"?
• (Our company's) goal is to monitor CSL suppliers quarterly and formally review CSL suppliers annually.
• reviews may occur more frequently and may be prompted by internal complaints or objective evidence or a poor rating
• Table 3 lists the categories by which a supplier is evaluated
"Table 3" above refers to the following criteria; 1) Quality - based on incoming inspection and production rejects for "dock to stock" material, 2) Delivery - On Time Delivery adjusted for required or requested changes and 3) Additional Supplier Rating - subject rating of "intangibles" such as customer service, response to non-conformances, etc.
When I reviewed our receipts over the past year, we have approximately 79 suppliers that fit the category of "supplying assigned P/N's" - which if I rated all of these, that's all I'd get done!!
Have we backed ourselves into a corner with these definitions? Some of our P/N'd parts include "off the shelf" inductors, packaging materials, etc. We used to classify suppliers by only dollar amount - but our registrars didn't like that method and in retrospect, it's not really the right way to go about it.
We'd like to pare down this list of 79, but I was looking for some thoughtful advice on a legitimate way to do that without merely putting blinders on and hoping for the best. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I've been revamping our Supplier Qualification program, and have found a Great Tool that I downloaded from the Cove - and it works very well for our current list of 18 "critical" suppliers. However we wanted to review and revise that list. Any thoughts???
-Steve