Synopsis: The cost of poor quality, when it comes to suppliers and purchased parts impacts every aspect of the business. Shorted and wrong deliveries disrupt production schedules, resulting in poor quality due to expedited and shifted schedules. This ultimately results in late shipments and unhappy customers and potentially cancelled orders. Nonconforming purchased parts increase costs, lengthen cycle times and consume expensive labor hours, tying up inspectors, buyers, engineers and managers.

Getting suppliers and purchased part quality under control impacts nearly every part of the company, including purchasing, quality, manufacturing and engineering.

This presentation describes a system and methodology that ties together all of these functional areas. It automates and helps manage supplier qualification and auditing, dealing with delivery issues and nonconformances.

Assurx will also be exhibiting at Table #5.

About AssurX, Inc.
AssurX, Inc. provides companies with enterprise-wide global solutions for their quality and compliance system needs. CATSWeb is the proven leader as the industry's system of choice -- used by leading Fortune 500 companies around the world. CATSWeb is a zero client application that can be accessed from any computer, running any operating system, with any Web browser, anywhere and anytime that an Internet or intranet connection is available. AssurX is headquartered in Morgan Hill, CA with satellite offices throughout North America and Europe. More information about CATSWeb and AssurX can be found at www.assurx.com.