Quality Assurance in Purchasing Flashcards
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What is the primary purpose of a supplier corrective action request (SCAR)?
Answer: To formally require a supplier to identify root cause and implement permanent fixes for a nonconformance
A SCAR formally obligates the supplier to perform root cause analysis, define corrective actions, and prevent recurrence of a quality issue.
Which quality management approach focuses on continuously identifying and eliminating waste in supplier processes?
Answer: Lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing targets the elimination of eight types of waste (DOWNTIME) to improve efficiency and quality in supplier and internal processes.
A purchasing professional discovers that a critical supplier is using an unapproved subcontractor for a key component. This BEST represents a failure in:
Answer: Supplier flow-down requirements
Flow-down requirements obligate suppliers to pass contractual quality and sourcing requirements to their subcontractors; failure to enforce this allows unauthorized changes.
Which metric BEST measures the overall effectiveness of a supplier's delivery and quality performance together?
Answer: Supplier Quality Index (SQI)
A Supplier Quality Index (SQI) or composite scorecard combines delivery, quality, and sometimes cost metrics into a single performance indicator.
Under what circumstance is 100% inspection generally justified in purchasing?
Answer: When the cost of inspection is lower than the cost of defects reaching the next stage or customer
100% inspection is economically justified when the downstream cost of a defect (safety risk, production stoppage, recall) far outweighs the inspection cost.
What is the primary goal of conducting a supplier quality audit?
Answer: To verify that the supplier's processes and systems conform to requirements and identify improvement opportunities
Quality audits assess conformance to requirements and identify systemic gaps, supporting continuous improvement rather than just punitive action.
A buyer specifies that all delivered components must have full material traceability. Which document BEST satisfies this requirement?
Answer: Material test report (MTR)
A Material Test Report documents the actual chemical and mechanical properties of a specific lot of material, enabling traceability from raw material to finished product.