SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Our partners provide electronic manufacturing, test, design, transportation, logistics and other services. With this breadth of supply and critical fabrication partners, managing supplier relationships is a complex, demanding and ongoing process.
World Class Supply Chain
Marchant Schmidt believes that a world-class supply chain allows us to offer our customers world-class products and services. We select suppliers whose standards align with our values particularly with regard to business integrity. We conduct quarterly business reviews of our suppliers' business activities, financial stability, engineering practices and quality procedures. When necessary, we request third-party audits of a supplier's business operations to assess their adherence to each point of our Supplier Quality Program. Despite a business model that is heavy on outsourcing, Marchant Schmidt's supply chain management structure gives us significant control over our supply chain, helping to ensure that deliverables meet our cost, quality and delivery expectations.
Supplier Assessment Program Overview
How many times were your shipments held up or delayed because of the poor or unstable quality of your subcontracted parts? How many times did your Lean Manufacturing process have to be stopped because your suppliers could not ship subcontracted parts on time or the parts did not meet the quality standards that you required? How many times did you have to increase your incoming inspection staff in order to ensure the quality of your subcontracted parts?
You are not alone! In today's competitive and fast changing business environment, these problems are the common problems that any manufacturer may face from time to time. The most popular solution to such problems is to establish a supplier assessment program to assess the supplier's quality system to ensure the quality of the outsourcing parts. Unfortunately, this solution often fails because businesses only focus on auditing paperwork but fail to help the suppliers establish pragmatic quality systems to respond to the fast changing business environment.
Marchant Schmidt's Supplier Assessment Program
Different from a traditional supplier assessment program, MSI's Supplier Assessment Program concentrates on establishing quick response channels and building up long-term mutual trust relationships between you and your suppliers.
There are five phases in MSI's Supplier Assessment Program:
- Phase one- establish fast feedback and response to handle non-conforming material.
- Phase two - establish quality system standards that MSI and the supplier concur, so no misunderstanding or disagreement will exist between the two regarding your quality requirements.
- Phase three - train your auditors and suppliers how to apply the quality standards set up in Phase two.
- Phase four - audit of suppliers and then rate suppliers accordingly.
- Phase five - implement corrective action and make plans for continuous improvement.
Become a supplier
If you're interested in supplying Marchant Schmidt, it is important you understand how we operate. It will also help to understand what we look for from our suppliers.
Our policies are straightforward. Everything we do must be economically viable, socially acceptable and environmentally sound. We expect the same of our suppliers and their supply chains.
Our critieria are what you would naturally expect Marchant Schmidt to continue to achieve. The good news is that it will also be of sound benefit to your business, now and in the future, because it's all about sustainability.
Supplier Assessment Process
We have devised a simple supplier assessment form to guide you through the process. It will give you the opportunity to tell us about your business operations and your products as you respond to a variety of issues that fall under the following key categories:
- Financially Stable
- Provide quality products (USDA, 3A, FDA)
- Established Quality Program
- Accurate information and responsive customer service
As Marchant Schmidt continues to expand its product portfolio and global marketing, sales and support infrastructure, a strong supply chain is becoming increasingly critical to our ongoing success. As a result, our company is committed to developing partnerships with best-in-class suppliers from machining and assembly service providers through supply and manufacture distributors and transportation companies. Marchant Schmidt is open to sharing information and processes as a means to best leverage each supplier relationship and bring world-class products to customers more efficiently and cost effectively.
If you're a supplier interested in doing business with Marchant Schmidt, we encourage you to use the tools and information on this website to assess the potential for a mutually beneficial business relationship. We select suppliers to support localized business units or to provide global service for multiple business units, offices and manufacturing facilities.
Purchase Terms & Conditions
All Purchase orders placed with Marchant Schmidt are subject to these specific terms and conditions.
Supplier Quality Program
PLEASE READ THIS POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE DOING BUSINESS WITH Marchant Schmidt.