Quality Trend 6 - Organizations will focus more on where to spend their supplier quality management resources

Organizations can no longer sustain the cost of problems identified through their supplier evaluations. In order to reduce the risk of unsecure supply chain organizations will focus more effort and money on creating strict quality standards that all of their suppliers will be required to meet. These standards go beyond the traditional ISO certifications in that they will be very specific to the requirements of the organization engaging the supplier. Although this will take more effort in the beginning, the long-term impact will be reduced risk for the organization that might otherwise be realized by poor supplier quality standards. These quality standards will be regularly audited to ensure compliance.

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