Location

Productivity and Quality Institute - Alexandria

Objectives

• • how to choose suppliers• how to maintain fewer• higher-quality partnerships, • Learn how to apply risk-based approaches and why and how to "rank" suppliers• how to manage the relationships you have with your suppliers.

Outcomes

Qualification and audits of suppliers, contract manufacturers and laboratories and other service providers are an important part of each Quality System. But what is required and which steps are really necessary? During this course, you will learn all relevant aspects to implement and/ or improve a comprehensive and integrated Supplier Qualification System which fulfils regulatory GMP requirements. Furthermore, you will get to know possibilities and tools to increase efficiency and decrease costs at your company.the course also will discuss the regulatory expectations and other industrial references/ standards that will impact your system and will include the general requirements of a vendor/supplier (outsourcing) control program followed by specific requirements for different types of supplied materials/equipment/services.

Course Contents

• Traditional role of purchasing • Purchasing as a Strategic Process • Quality revolution• Cost of poor quality• Juran triology • The Sourcing Process • Supplier Relations • Total Cost of Ownership • Importance of Supplier Quality • Organizing supplier relations • Supplier score card• Supplier Quality Agreements• Principles for Organizing for Supplier Relations • GMP Pre-Requisites for Procurement and Outsourcing• Risk Management in the Supply Chain: Frequency of Supplier Audits based on Risk Assessment