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Robust QA Mechanism

The process of making quality products starts by selecting the right suppliers as they play a vital role in bringing your product to market. Over the years, we have developed robust supplier quality management processes which identify suppliers that can meet and exceed quality standards. These processes are designed to the following guidelines in mind:

The process of making quality products starts by selecting the right suppliers as they play a vital role in bringing your product to market. Over the years, we have developed robust supplier quality management processes which identify suppliers that can meet and exceed quality standards. These processes are designed to the following guidelines in mind:

• Clear communication with the suppliers complying to the industry standards.
• Visibility of supplier records and activities.
• Accessibility to accurate information of the product.
• Extracting meaningful and reliable data process and workflow consistency from the supplier onboarding process.
• Centralized supplier data such as address its context product certifications.

HillTree’s global sourcing and procurement outsourcing solutions collects data about volatile supplier quality, and calculates the performance of their supplier by reviewing incoming non-conforming materials, supplier audits, documents, certifications and more. After analysing all such data we generate a scorecard of each supplier and share the same with our clients and stakeholders in their organization.

Our Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) teams work in collaboration with our Vendor development teams to further classify this data and further classify suppliers into three different categories based on cost impact and operational risk to the client: basic, tactical and strategic. The SRM teams have dedicated SRM programs in place to manage all three categories of suppliers, to always ensure quality standards and delivery timelines are met without exception.

Complete Visibility

Supply Chains have become drastically tailored with the increase in technology- the access to data and making that available across your end-to-end network. Products, workforce, industrial assets are connected through technology, through ecosystems, through people and capabilities that only were not always available. The changes that we are seeing in the market as a result are quite dramatic, and if organizations aren’t looking for where disruption has come they’re going to be disrupted themselves. With millions of moving parts, industrial supply chains are incredibly complex, but collaborative technologies can help.

Today, most traditional logistics solutions are either too generic or too expensive to implement. They don’t operate in real-time and they don’t provide enough useful context. Historically, the supply chain was relegated to being a back-office support function. As we move forward it’s not just about having a great product or service it’s about delivering a great customer experience. Customers want choice, they want personalization, they want what they want, where they want it, when they want it, and all those have implications on the supply chains. As an organization, HillTree works hard to stay well connected to its clients using internal and external information to flow that through end to end so they can be very proactive in the way that they manage that to meet those customer needs.

Truly effective supply chain optimization requires complete, end-to-end visibility across the supply chain ecosystem. HillTree global sourcing and procurement solutions provide real-time information on the status of a shipment, including current location, optimal route, and any sensor data provided by the shipment. This increased visibility helps enterprises and logistics managers reduce misplacements and delays, while minimizing production slow-downs and shipping costs.

Simultaneously, logistics managers can understand ETAs, so they can re-plan capacity in near real time. Visibility into a complete logistics journey enables optimized asset utilization, reduced waste and increased inventory velocity. Through it’s strong affiliate group of logistics producers and global delivery network, HillTree provides valuable insights across the entire supply chain process to companies, helping them identify risks and eliminate obstacles ahead of time.

Powered by rich, fresh and accurate location data, real-time tracking technologies and analytics clients can keep close tabs on inbound and outbound logistics.

Verified & Managed Suppliers

In more and more markets, it is no longer individual organizations that succeed but the supply chains in which they operate. Businesses and increasing public sector and not-for-profit organizations can’t survive in isolation. Organizations need to form strong alliances with partners up and down the supply chain and together find innovative ways to serve their end customers by being better, faster and cheaper. This is the reason and basis for HillTree’s extensive focus on constantly and improving it’s vendor development & SRM programs

SRM is a way of working with your critical and strategic suppliers to systematically identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve service and quality and innovate. These opportunities are then run as projects with team members from both sides. It eliminates waste and barriers to effective service contract set out what has been agreed between the buyer and seller in terms of what will be delivered and for what price.

In practice, waste can be created due to inefficiencies in how the processes, systems and ways of working of the two sides come together. An SRM program can identify these sources of waste and eliminate them- creating lower cost and improved service. It also builds mutual dependency. If both sides value the benefits they get from the relationship created by your SRM program then they acquire an expectation that the relationship will be long-lasting. This means that in times of scarcity your organization is unlikely to be affected by any need for the supplier to ration their output

It also encourages investment. If critical and strategic suppliers in your SRM program see that it creates value for them, and that the business relationship is likely to be a long one, then they are more likely to make your investments that increase their capacity and capability to live for what you need. It also motivates suppliers to go the extra mile.