Greetings everyone. Long time follower, first time posting.
We are a rubber manufacturing facility compliant with IATF and ISO9001. We have many supplier/customer and customer/supplier/competitor relationships. We have a particular supplier who is also a direct competitor of ours on a different product line.
Last year, this supplier failed to meet our requested standards (high PPM and number of quality incidences) and was therefore placed on our supplier improvement list for 2018. So far, this supplier has been reluctant to provide any type of improvement plan. They also will not allow me onsite to visit with their quality group and view PFMEAs. Our internal rules specify that I must conduct a VDA 6.3 audit as validation of their improvement plan, but as of now, I do not see this happening.
I am asking for suggestions on how to deal with this scenario. I have already suggested to our purchasing group that we quit quoting new business with this vendor and look for alternative vendors for our current parts. Beyond that, is there anything else I can do to develop this vendor if they won't let me come near?
We are a rubber manufacturing facility compliant with IATF and ISO9001. We have many supplier/customer and customer/supplier/competitor relationships. We have a particular supplier who is also a direct competitor of ours on a different product line.
Last year, this supplier failed to meet our requested standards (high PPM and number of quality incidences) and was therefore placed on our supplier improvement list for 2018. So far, this supplier has been reluctant to provide any type of improvement plan. They also will not allow me onsite to visit with their quality group and view PFMEAs. Our internal rules specify that I must conduct a VDA 6.3 audit as validation of their improvement plan, but as of now, I do not see this happening.
I am asking for suggestions on how to deal with this scenario. I have already suggested to our purchasing group that we quit quoting new business with this vendor and look for alternative vendors for our current parts. Beyond that, is there anything else I can do to develop this vendor if they won't let me come near?