ISO9001 Approved Supplier List format question

[ScottK]

Subject already discussed.
Did you search before asking? http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=12574

indeed I did search and did not turn up that thread.
Either that or suffered from temporary blindness in the area of the screen that the thread appeared.
sorry for the faux pas.

 

[Rachel]

Maybe this will simplify things a bit...
...our Approved Vendor List is the list of vendors in our inventory database system. Our Purchasing dept controls this list; when a vendor is disqualified, a lock is placed on the database record in order to prevent a PO from being issued for goods from said vendor. Newly approved vendors are added to the db. I'm sure that if someone wanted a printout of this, it could be provided.

 

[kbliese]

In search of good definiition of critical and non critical suppliers

I need to rate my suppliers as either critical or non-critical and would like to reference some examples of such.

 

[Martijn]

Hi, welcome to the cove!

Critical/non critical suppliers can be defined fairly easily by assessing their influence on the quality of the product/service. In our case, the following set of suppliers are critical:
warehouses (storage conditions)
carriers (delivery in time)
contract manufacturers (they make the product)
laboratories (quality control)
engineering companies (maintenance in our plants)
etc.

Non critical suppliers are not named as such, they're just not part of the critical supplier list:
office cleaning company
supplier of paper for the printer (critical if you run a copyshop ;-))
etc.

I guess a discussion could arise about actually checking all suppliers and tagging them as critical/non critical. From a theoritical point of view you should of course ("how do you know that company is not critical?"). From a practible point of view we don't, and our auditor seems fine with it.

 

[kbliese]

Once I determine if a part/component is deemed critical, major or minor I then can rate the suppliers accordingly. It is the classificaiton of such parts or components where I am having difficulty trying to find a good definition of the three critical, major or minor. Any one have any suggestions on this topic.

 

[Martijn]

My guess is that if you look at suppliers from a component point of view, the question you'd have to ask yourself is what the component does for the product, and more important, what it does when it brakes down. This means you'd have to make some sort of risk analysis for your components, where you evaluate chance of component failure vs. effect. This is a bit outside my daily work, my guess is you can find much more info in the cove, especially the forums for the automotive industry.