Supplier Management

Streamline your supply chain operations and gain a competitive advantage by integrating quality, safety, performance management and collaboration tools to enhance supplier performance while reducing risk and cost.

Partner with suppliers, contractors and vendors to improve quality, compliance and operational efficiency.

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Take Control of Supplier Management Across the Lifecycle

With CQ’s Supplier Management Solution, you can qualify, onboard, and engage suppliers across all locations while collaborating seamlessly to maintain compliance with regulatory standards. Real-time performance monitoring and continuous improvement tools ensure your supplier relationships are efficient, effective, and mutually beneficial. By enhancing supplier relationships, you gain a competitive advantage in delivering high-quality products and meeting market demands.

Managing suppliers today is more complex than ever, especially in industries like manufacturing, consumer goods, energy, and life sciences. Challenges such as lack of visibility, siloed data, and disparate systems lead to inefficiencies, missed deadlines, and regulatory non-compliance. CQ Supplier Management eliminates these hurdles by unifying all supplier workflows on a single platform, enabling greater visibility, operational efficiency, and strategic alignment.

- You know your performance is only as good as your suppliers’. Non-conforming material and delays can lead to product recalls, higher costs and missed revenue opportunities, compliance violations and reputational harm.
  
  With CQ Supplier Management System, you can stay on top of all elements of your supplier management processes, getting qualified supplier onboard, identifying issues as they arise, managing approvals and changes in real-time, and ensuring appropriate supplier performance and quality standards through consistent audits and reviews.
  
  By digitally transforming how you engage with your suppliers at every step, you ensure that every interaction is performed as it should, nothing gets missed or dropped, and continuity of supply is maintained.
- Your entire team can benefit from transforming how you work with your suppliers by integrating a collaborative system into your operations.
  
  CQ Supplier Management is a secure, cloud-based solution that fosters best practices in your supplier relationships, ensuring quality, compliance and readiness.
  
  Tightly coupled with audit, risk, change, document management and other QMS capabilities, information is easily and instantaneously shared with your suppliers, making it straightforward to address issues, take corrective actions and stay ahead with real-time performance monitoring that drives efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
  
  Now featuring collaboration via email, suppliers can seamlessly communicate and submit data directly through email interactions. This eliminates the need for portal logins, reduces back-and-forth delays, and ensures all communications and documents are automatically tracked within the system.
  
  Collaborate seamlessly, resolve issues proactively, manage approvals and changes in real-time, exchange critical documents, and gain two-way visibility into supplier performance through the dedicated Supplier Central portal
- Eliminate back-and-forth emails, documents and spreadsheets to interact with your supplier base. For the first time, get complete transparency and oversight about supplier specifications, change requests, deviations, safety compliance, permit to work, contractor certifications, etc. With bi-directional communication, workflows and alerts, you can identify issues sooner and easily escalate when necessary.
  
  Now, you can:
  
  Gain a consolidated, 360 degree view of your supplier engagements
  
  Manage and control all elements of your supplier interactions
  
  Provide supplier and partner visibility and access to all your departments throughout the supply chain
  
  Ensure supplier compliance and reduce risk
  
  Leverage advanced dashboards and analytics for deeper insights.

Support Your Entire Organization

Management

Gain complete visibility and transparency of supplier performance to make real-time data-driven decisions to reduce supplier risk throughout the supply chain.
Quality

Build strong relationships by collaborating with suppliers in a process of continual improvement to minimize product quality and compliance issues and ensure fewer customer complaints.
Procurement

Ease the burden of supplier management and rationalization while ensuring supply integrity by engaging the most reliable and qualified suppliers.
Manufacturing

Quickly identify and resolve supplier quality and performance issues to reduce cycle time and improve cost savings by eliminating waste and product failures.
Engineering

Effectively engage the best selection of capable suppliers to optimize process and production development accelerating NPI success and financial performance.
Suppliers

Keep abreast of changes, issues, and overall performance indictors in real-time to quickly identify and act on information and areas needing attention, promoting continuous improvement.

What They Say About Us

“For the first time, we really understand the depth of our supply chain – particularly as conditions change – and can understand where the weaknesses are. We’re no longer chasing down issues and learning of problems too late. ComplianceQuest gives us complete control over our supply chain as we aggressively scale our business.”

VP Supply Chain

Global Life Sciences Company
We have rolled-out CQ across our company to automate various elements of QMS requirements such as Document Management, Complaints, Non-conformances, Corrective Action (8D and A3), Supplier Management and Audit Management. We have been using the software for more than 2 years. We are glad to see how well the system is being used across the company. We have several thousand users on the system currently and working to scale the usage further. CQ solution has been configured to meet our needs, works elegantly across languages, across time zones, and business verticals. With integration between CQ and SAP to exchange critical data, the process automation provides a lot of productivity. CQ configuration team and support have worked hard to ensure that our needs continue to be met. They consistently go above and beyond. We cannot be more pleased with our use of CQ QMS capabilities and would definitely recommend to anyone who is looking for a modern cloud based EQMS solution especially if you want a scalable EQMS solution.

Lia Budiman,

Continental Contitech

Key Features of CQ Supplier Management Solution

Supplier Qualification & Onboarding (Parts and Processes)

Efficiently qualify and onboard suppliers, ensuring compliance across parts, processes, and locations.
Approved Supplier List (ASL)/Approved Manufacturer List (AML) Reports

Easily access reports to track approved suppliers and manufacturers for streamlined compliance.
Supplier Portal with Real-Time Collaboration

Centralized platform for seamless communication, document sharing, and task management with suppliers.
Supplier Performance Rating and Scorecards

Monitor supplier performance with detailed scorecards and metrics to drive continuous improvement.
Supplier Escalations and Issue Resolution

Proactively manage escalations and resolve supplier issues to ensure operational continuity.
NC, SCAR and Corrective Actions

Ensure enhance quality by tracking and resolving non-conformances with effective corrective and preventive action workflows.
Audits, Inspections, and PPAP

Conduct audits, inspections, and streamline production part approvals to ensure supplier quality and compliance.
Supplier Interactions and Collaboration via Email

Enable two-way communication with suppliers through email, with automatic documentation and tracking.
Data Collection via CQ Forms

Simplify supplier data collection through secure, fillable forms shared via email links.
Reporting & Analytics with AI-driven Insights

Leverage AI-powered analytics for actionable insights into supplier performance and risk.