Product Compliance in the EU: Guidance On Creating Technical Files
If you are an importer in the European Union, are you aware of your obligations related to product compliance? Do you know that you need to keep a technical file about every product you place on the market for at least 10 years?
In this post, we’ll give you some technical file guidance to help you stay compliant, and will also show how the SynControl quality inspection software can handle the task of building and retaining the files for you…
5 Important QC Inspections At Different Production & Shipment Stages
Many buyers tend to focus on the final pre-shipment inspection only. However, there are many other inspection touch points along the production cycle, and even after shipping.
I’ve listed the 5 most common types of QC inspections that can or should be conducted in this post. If you aren’t running these, perhaps you can consider it…
4 Proven Tips For Enforcing Quality Standards In Asia
Once you have established a quality standard for the products you are importing from China (or other low-cost Asian countries), you need to be able to ensure that the standard will be enforced and that quality levels won’t drop over time.
Keep reading for four suggestions that will help you to enforce your quality standards:
10 Steps to Ensure High Quality Production in China
If you import products from low-cost Asia (China, but also Vietnam or India), you need to take steps to increase the odds that you receive high quality production batches. It means you work with the right companies, you set the right standards, and your standards are strictly adhered to.
Selecting A Reliable Supplier: The Limits Of Factory Audits
Selecting a reliable supplier in China or, say, Vietnam can be a daunting process. In this article, let’s explore factory audits which you may use to assess potential suppliers, and the limits of the audit score.
Quality Inspector Corruption: It’s Not All About The Money
Quality inspector corruption is a huge risk in China, in Bangladesh, in Mexico, etc. Inspectors are trusted to go out on their own without supervision, and what they report can have a serious financial impact on a factory. There is obviously a lot of temptation to misreport reality. But what causes this corruption more often? Money, social pressure, or both?
The Expert Guide To Quality Inspection Software
You receive an email from your factory in China. It can’t be good news so close to delivery date.
Yes, quality issues…again.
If this is a familiar story then you are no doubt considering how to improve your quality inspections, including the effectiveness of the inspectors who may let defective products pass by accident on occasion.
Implementing quality inspection software could help mitigate or remove these quality issues altogether, but before you can consider it to be a credible investment let us guide you through what it is in detail.
The Impact of Quality Control Software on Your Supply Chain [Graphs]
When we look at most supply chains that include manufacturing in China, we see serious issues with data exchange, analysis, and usage for decision making.
How to integrate quality inspection software with your ERP – Guide
So your company has an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system – maybe SAP or Microsoft Dynamics if you are part of a large group, or something a bit ‘liter’.
At the same time, you want to structure and automate the work of your QC inspectors with a dedicated quality inspection software solution. I wrote before how it can save you time and money.
And, of course, you want both of these systems to communicate to each other. How would it work?
