Using the popular categories of quality costs: prevention, appraisal, internal failure and external failure, the quality cost elements of a Supplier Quality Assurance program are defined.Several methods of using these costs to measure both the effectiveness of a Supplier Quality Assurance program and the performance of suppliers are discussed.These measurements include the relationship between investment and results, purchasing’s cost recovery performance, loss of productivity due to purchased defects, percent defective purchased dollars and True Price Index.
Quality Costs and Supplier Quality
Sae Technical Papers
SAE International Congress and Exposition ; 1982
1982-02-01
Conference paper
English
Supplier quality assurance program
TIBKAT | 1965
Supplier Award Die Besten des Supplier Quality Index (SQI)
Online Contents | 2010
NAPM-RIG QUALITY SUPPLIER LISTING
Online Contents | 1998
`Management of supplier software quality'
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1998
|NAPM-RIG QUALITY SUPPLIER LISTING
Online Contents | 1997