Hello,
I work for a company which manufactures plastic tableware.
I was curious to know how other people manage the supplier approval process for raw materials such as resin (largely polypropylene), inks and masterbatch.
For components items we carry out the more traditional Quality Audit looking at the end to end process. However for the raw materials we haven't tended to do this, as there isn't a great deal to look at for the manufacture of inks for example (also we aren't particularly qualified to comment on the manufacturing processes of inks and PP).
Does anybody purchase similar raw materials and if so how do you go about approving these suppliers?
Also note that after a raw material has been "approved", we do then qualify the material, but consider this to be material approval and not supplier approval.
Thanks
I work for a company which manufactures plastic tableware.
I was curious to know how other people manage the supplier approval process for raw materials such as resin (largely polypropylene), inks and masterbatch.
For components items we carry out the more traditional Quality Audit looking at the end to end process. However for the raw materials we haven't tended to do this, as there isn't a great deal to look at for the manufacture of inks for example (also we aren't particularly qualified to comment on the manufacturing processes of inks and PP).
Does anybody purchase similar raw materials and if so how do you go about approving these suppliers?
Also note that after a raw material has been "approved", we do then qualify the material, but consider this to be material approval and not supplier approval.
Thanks