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Supplier Management Handbook
James L. Bossert, Editor
This book offers a very thorough examinaton of all facets of procurement quality activities. It explains how supplier management relates to ISO 9000 quality standards and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria.
Contents:
Why Procurement Quality? · How Does
Your Supplier See You? · Basic Issues:
Specifications, Record Keeping, Site Inspection,
Measurement Assurance, Communications, from
Ship-to-Stock, and Data Evaluation ·
Supplier Certification ·
How to Conduct a Supplier Survey ·
How to Evaluate a Supplier's Product ·
How to Establish Effective Quality Control
for the Small Supplier ·
Procurement Quality in the Food Industry
1994, 364 pages, ISBN 0-87389-284-4,
Hardcover.
Trim 6 x 9, Includes 6 appendices.
Item: H0840, ASQ Member Price: $38.50, List Price: $43.00
Supplier Certification:
A Continuous Improvement Strategy
Richard A. Maass, John O. Brown,
and James L. Bossert
This guide for supplier certification is provided by using a nuts-and-bolts approach to implementing certification. The information follows Deming's model of plan, do, check, act and brings it to the supplier certification arena with precision.
Contents:
Introduction to Certification ·
Supplier Approval, Measurement ·
General Certification Criteria ·
Bulk Process Industries ·
Piece Part Industries ·
Data Collection for Certification ·
System Administration ·
Problem Solving ·
Commitment and Quality Agreements ·
Postcertification Activities ·
Certification Maintenance ·
Decertification and Recovery ·
Benefits of Certification
1990, 141 pages,
ISBN 0-87389-083-3, Softcover.
Item: H0592, ASQ Member Price: $24.50, List Price: $27.00
Updated: 06/10/97