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Can anyone tell me if natural disasters must now be included in contingency plans for TS16949?
Katheryn said:Can anyone tell me if natural disasters must now be included in contingency plans for TS16949?
Bill Ryan said:I haven't ranted for a while......
We're a die cast/machine/light assembly house. If a tornado, fire, earthquake, etc., would ravage our plant(s) and destry the machinery and tooling - or if our Central Melt furnaces would get water in the metal, blow up, and level the neighborhood - does anyone think we would give a rat's behind about whether GM, Ford, Nissan, or anyone else got product?
We recently had a visit from a "VP of Quality" at one of our bigger customers and he brought up that very question - "What would happen if your company got blown away and couldn't meet our schedules? Maybe we should think about that." It was all I could do to keep from rolling on the floor.
There, I feel better and can go on now....
In all seriousness - if your company is the sole supplier of a product, how could you possibly satisfy (to your customer's liking) the "Natural Disaster" contingency requirement and still keep piece price in line?
Jim Wynne said:With all of the bluster about "mutually beneficial relationships" and "partnering" with suppliers, I've often wondered how an OEM would react if a supplier were to ask, "If our plant suddenly burned down, what would you be able to do for us?"
I agree with you Dave. My post was more in response to Cheahga's response concerning Visteon's (and others) "refinement" to the standard.db said:In my normal fashion, I will answer by going back to the standard. It tells us all we need to know. “..in the event of an emergency such as utility interruptions, labour shortages, key equipment failure and field returns.”
So would a natural disaster cause?
1) a utility interruption
2) labor shortages
3) key equipment failure
4) field returns
Well, I’m not sure about field returns, but the other three…. I have a client that received a request from a customer for a contingency plan for bird flu! And what’s worse, the plan must include a bunch of different stuff. Now, INMSHO, the bird flu would probably fall under #2 above. If we had a different plan for each way someone could get sick, we would be in trouble.
This ain’t all that difficult.
Better yet, ask them, "I am your largest supplier of incremental safety enhancement systems components. Since you have imposed all of these standards, price pressure, custom component requirements, etc., I have customized 80% of my business around your business. So, when you totally mismanange your entire corporation, leave your employees high and dry, declare bankruptcy and go out of business, do you have a contingency plan for how I continue to run my business?"Jim Wynne said:With all of the bluster about "mutually beneficial relationships" and "partnering" with suppliers, I've often wondered how an OEM would react if a supplier were to ask, "If our plant suddenly burned down, what would you be able to do for us?"