Assignment task:
You are the Quality Director for a small startup device company. Production Dept notified the Supply Chain Manager that they would like to order a major component from a new vendor. The components will be used inside an ISO 7 cleanroom. The Supply Chain Manager, who just started, notifies you since they are not on the Approved Supplier List.
What steps would you implement to ensure that they can use the part supplied by the vendor? What must be done to be able to accept the component into the building and eventually into the cleanroom and used by production?
Think about all phases of the supplier evaluation program. What will your supplier evaluation program look like? Will major components be treated differently from less critical ones? What steps will the supplier have to go through? Will the supplier immediately be placed on the approved list? What will happen when the part is delivered to receiving? What will quality have to do at receiving? What will quality check the component against? How will you ensure that the component is traceable after is gets to production?
Please help to create a PP training presentation to show your quality team the steps you would take to be able to use this new vendor. It can be up to 12 slides. Please cite any references as needed.