CQ Guide: What is the correlation between ASL, design controls, and supplier management?

A priority for any organization is to meet customers’ requirements and stay ahead of competitors. Today, digital transformation helps connect end-to-end business processes by creating a digital thread running through all processes. Implementing the digital thread makes connections to key information easier, integrating the supply chain with customer relationship management. It has also enhanced productivity, capitalized on larger market opportunities, responded to customers immediately, and created feedback loops for innovation. To handle accelerating product complexity, industrial manufacturers must reconsider their business processes and connect siloed systems with the digital thread.

To get a collaborative environment throughout the design-to-manufacturing process, you must understand how to remove data silos and manage changes. Legacy IT systems cannot manage the growing product complexity, which can disrupt the on-time delivery of new products. Therefore, the best way to rectify this problem is to gain access to all of the information locked away in legacy systems by connecting those disparate systems. Several teams can work concurrently with the latest product information with complete traceability across the product lifecycle. The digital thread can help you to create closed-loop capabilities to identify and manage risk, improve quality, meet customer requirements, and attain environment, safety, medical, and other forms of compliance.

How is design control connected to supplier and manufacturing controls?

By closely integrating with quality systems, design controls play an important role in product design and development (new features, updated functionalities, or correction of any causes of failure) across various parts of the workflow covering design, manufacturing, risk management, document control, and supplier management.

The quality policy document is used to document design control requirements, and design controls are an ongoing effort that requires a proactive approach for continuous improvement.

To ensure the product design and development process complies with quality requirements, you must integrate it completely with the EQMS Solution. By integrating with EQMS, ComplianceQuest’s next-generation Product Design Management Solution can help businesses to manage design controls better and provide instant access to risk management and documentation solutions.

How Can Businesses Achieve Integrated Change Control with Collaboration and Visibility across the Change Lifecycle?

Due to the accelerating digitization in this modern world, maintaining stability and avoiding turmoil during the change is becoming more challenging. Companies should improve their change management process by reviewing the change management plan while also ensuring that it meets their company’s business requirements by

Defining the impact, status, and effectiveness of change with the help of real-time dashboards
Ensuring conformity, reliability, and predictability of services and processes during the change
Involving your resources with maximum productivity during the execution of change

Integrated change control with collaboration and visibility across the change lifecycle can be achieved by incorporating the following factors:

Determine the intention of change to know why a certain change is essential and beneficial for the process or the product.
Collaborate with stakeholders, including senior management and leadership, to understand their roles and responsibilities during the process.
Effectively communicate during the implementation of change, its duration, and its effective implementation date.
Properly document the change to track the change history and reverse the change if an error occurs.
Have a fallback procedure in case of any disruptions or delays in the current supply chain.
Monitor the success to ensure that the change can deliver the purpose for which it was implemented.

Are you using ASL?

Approved Supplier Lists (ASLs) are crucial for businesses to build resilience in the supply chain and should be periodically reviewed and updated. They should have a fallback procedure if the change does not perform as anticipated or has a negative impact on the system.

ComplianceQuest Supplier Management Software can help with the following features and capabilities –

Handle supplier-related risks proactively to mitigate any risks and build resilience in the supply chain by managing an Approved Supplier List (ASL).
Drive supplier decision-making using data and metrics by scoring your suppliers.
Exchange documents by facilitating communication and collaboration with suppliers.
Manage change and deviation requests for root cause analysis and CAPA to help address problems efficiently.
Conduct Supplier Audits and generate reports and run analytics seamlessly.
Reduce the risk of nonconforming products and delays with the PPAP (Production Part Approval Process).
Authorize contractors and partners with the proper skills and qualifications using PTW (permit-to-work) to work in high-risk areas.

ComplianceQuest presented a webinar on "Moving Beyond ASL with Design Controls and Supplier Management," focusing on how to build practical data structures to start your product digital threads so that your suppliers and manufacturers can build high-quality product.

CQ Guide: What is the correlation between ASL, design controls, and supplier management?

How is design control connected to supplier and manufacturing controls?

How Can Businesses Achieve Integrated Change Control with Collaboration and Visibility across the Change Lifecycle?

Are you using ASL?

ComplianceQuest presented a webinar on "Moving Beyond ASL with Design Controls and Supplier Management," focusing on how to build practical data structures to start your product digital threads so that your suppliers and manufacturers can build high-quality product.

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