This working group will focus on the topic of procurement and production quality.

Your organisation is like most and constantly aiming to improve customer value, reduce costs and increase profit and cashflow. It needs to reduce inventory, improve velocity from raw material purchase order to customer paid invoice and with ever increasing quality expectations.

Manufacturing and supplier Kanban are principles being applied as inventory holdings are reduced.

What happens next? It goes smoothly or disruption occurs due to defective parts?

Procurement have targets to meet to reduce costs, reduce purchase price variances, sourcing issues, etc.

Sometimes this requires a change of supplier.

What happens next? It goes smoothly or disruption occurs due to defective parts?

All of a sudden you are having quality issues on your products when they used to go smoothly?

After some root cause analysis you discover specifications are to being met from your supplier?

What next?

The importance of working together on these organisational objective is often understated.

Have you ever been frustrated by these scenarios?

Do you know if these scenarios have occurred in your organisation?

Maybe you have conflicting KPI’s?

Do you share information freely to those affected stakeholders?

Do you have systems in place to ensure any supplier or process change is clearly communicated to the people that need to know?

What are organisations doing to ensure these scenarios do not occur in their business.

Let’s find out, evaluate against our own processes and reinforce or improve our systems.

Our events are an excellent forum for networking and engaging in 'peer to peer' learning with other members. To get the most out of the event you need to attend the event with a willingness to contribute to group discussions.

Who should attend?
This event is ideal for Procurement and Quality professionals, Manufacturing leaders.

As a member of IPA you can register up to 2 people, subject to availability, to attend this event. This event is for IPA members only, there will be no public access to this event.

When do I need to register by?
Registrations close 2 days prior to event date.
Registrations are based on a "first come, first served" basis.
There are no allocated seats with membership.

Who can I contact for further information?

Samantha Jeffrey
samantha@industrypartners.com.au
0438 058 823