- Decreases costs of product life cycle management, audits, supplier
management expenses, and general operations
- Delivers improvements in
- Performance in manufacturing and service
- Productivity
- Reliability of processes and production
- Life-cycle management
- Supply chain efficiencies
- Employee teamwork
- Increases the efficiency of external audits and site visits
- Ensures operational consistency
- Quantifies performance results
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- Provides access to a greater customer base
- Enhances competitive position
- Improves customer service and overall satisfaction
- Establishes a method to gather and measure quality and performance data
- Demonstrates a commitment to product quality and customer value through focus on cycle-time reductions; on-time deliveries; return rates; reliability; and defect elimination
- Demonstrates the company’s accountability and focus on continual improvement
- Enables the development of stronger customer/supplier relationships
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