Path to Creating a Distinct Competitive Advantage
Manufacturers need to take a much more demand-driven approach to integrating quality management and compliance throughout their organizations. Getting beyond the mindset that compliance to baseline requirement is “good enough” starts when quality management analytics and metrics of performance permeate an organization’s structure and become part of who it is. Getting beyond “good enough” is essential for any manufacturer to survive in the highly regulated and increasingly litigious environment. Understanding their specific industry requirements as just the beginning of the manufacturing cycle is going to turn supplier quality management into a core part of who they are.