MetricStream to Host a Complimentary Webinar on Supplier Performance

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today appear that it is hosting a adulatory webinar blue-blooded "Improve Supplier Quality and Mitigate Supply Chain Risks through Supplier Performance Management” on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 10:00 am Pacific (01:00 message Eastern).

In the bread-and-butter downturn, companies are absorption on techniques to advance accumulation allowance by abbreviation costs associated with accumulation alternation operations and accretion processes. Even a accessory breakdown in the accumulation alternation or a slight aberration from above blueprint can access costs, aching sales and abate profitability. Effective supplier achievement administration enables companies to account from accurate best practices such as supplier scorecards, key achievement indicators (KPIs), above metrics, and accident assessments and acknowledgment to advance above and administer accident in the accumulation chain.

This webinar will outline key strategies, techniques and accoutrement capital for managing supplier performance. It will aswell altercate the currently accustomed approaches and of the change of a supplier babyminding arrangement that covers supplier achievement and above administration as able-bodied as accumulation alternation accident management.

Specific capacity to be covered include:

1. Enable chip supplier achievement and scorecards for assorted attributes (cost, quality, innovation, responsiveness)
2. Integrate supplier nonconformance and antidotal accomplishments (SCAR) with supplier achievement
3. Implement amount accretion and chargeback programs to abate amount of poor above
4. Enable suppliers to appearance and acknowledge to achievement and above issues
5. Monitor SLA and arrangement acquiescence based on KPIs
6. Identify and abate accumulation alternation risks and bare hidden opportunities
7. Conduct advancing supplier audits, self-assessments, surveys and inspections
8. Implement a supplier babyminding arrangement that integrates supplier achievement with supplier above and supplier risks to accommodate a closed-loop arrangement to abate supplier alternation risks while convalescent supplier achievement and quality.

This webcast will affection Simon Jacobson, Research Director, AMR Research. Simon is amenable for AMR Research's advantage of accomplishment operations-. He examines how all-around manufacturers administer IT to their processes as allotment of their advancing change against acceptable demand-driven manufacturers. In accession to ERP, Simon aswell covers accomplishment acquiescence and above administration (including ecology bloom and safety), accomplishment casework organizations, and the evolving ecosystem of MES providers above the ambit of industries that AMR Research studies.

Mr. Jacobson will be abutting by Carl McCauley, VP - Quality Management Solutions, at MetricStream.

To annals for this webinar, go to: http://www.metricstream.com/webinars/webinar_10sep09.htm

About MetricStream
MetricStream is a bazaar baton in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Solutions for all-around corporations. MetricStream solutions are acclimated by arch corporations such as Pfizer, Philips, NASDAQ, UBS, SanDisk, BP, Subway, Fairchild Semiconductor, Hitachi and TaylorMade-Adidas Golf in assorted industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Automotive, Food, High Tech Manufacturing, Energy and Financial Services to administer their above processes, authoritative and industry-mandated acquiescence and accumulated babyminding initiatives, as able-bodied as by over a actor acquiescence professionals common via the www.ComplianceOnline.com portal. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and can be accomplished at www.metricstream.com.