Strategies to Prevent Supplier Issues
This webinar discusses the importance of managing supplier risk by performing audits, assessments, supplier training, and monitoring. Strategies for performing these items as well as resources available with additional detail will be shared. This webinar is for you if you are a: • Quality manager • Quality engineer • Supplier quality professional In this informative 60-minute webinar, you will learn: approaches to audits and assessments of suppliers strategies for training suppliers techniques for monitoring suppliers Speakers: Heather McCain is the CMC leader for Supply Chain and is currently a Professor of the Practice at the University of Kansas. She has more than 30 years of experience working with companies such as Garmin International, Hallmark Cards, and Honeywell to implement continuous improvement methodologies. She is a CQE and CMQ/OE. Andrew Skradski is a Supplier Quality Engineer at Marlen. Marlen is an OEM manufacturer of food processing equipment in the Kansas City area. His ASQ certifications include: CQE, CQT, CQI, and CSSGB. KEYWORDS: supplier quality, ASQ, CQE, CQA, CMQ/OE, risk, risk management, supplier training, continuous process improvement, quality, QMD,

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