Case Study: Quality Management with Third-Party Inspections vs Vendor Self-Inspections

Adopting a digital platform to improve quality performance across the supply chain has many benefits. We’ll show you an analysis on the return on investment on quality of two retailers – Sophie’s Shop and D-Moda. Sophie’s Shop adopted a digital platform for quality management and implemented a vendor self-inspection program, while D-Moda stayed with traditional methods […]

How to Use Data Science to Predict Quality Risk

Interview with Khanh Pham, Director of Data Science and Analytics at Inspectorio Resiliency and reputation are extremely important in today’s commerce environment — and both depend on your ability to maintain product quality regardless of the size and complexity of your supply chain. As the person charged with ensuring product quality, managing a global supply […]

Reducing Cost of Quality with a Digital Quality Management System

Today’s brands and retailers rely on a global supply chain to produce and deliver products. With so much production happening overseas in remote facilities, ensuring product quality has proved challenging without the right tools. A quality defect that makes it all the way to stores or to your customers represents an extremely high quality-related cost. […]

4 Ways to Improve Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)

Written by Nick Inzeo Corrective Action and Preventive Action (CAPA) plans happen all the time because they’re incorporated into the production process and are considered standard practice in the manufacturing industry. However, because they’re considered to be standard practice, some organizations have become less rigorous with the implementation of their CAPAs. What is a CAPA? […]

The Technology Tipping Point for the Quality Control Industry

Interview with Fernando Moncayo, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Inspectorio “We are living in a transition. What COVID has done is accelerate this transition. I believe the time we’re living through is really unique; you only get to live through this type of transformation once.”Fernando Moncayo, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Inspectorio Fernando Moncayo has […]

The Future of Supply Chains is Digital Collaboration

Data is key to the efficient operation of supply chains. Using a system that results in quality data and actionable leads results in quick problem solving and business improvements. But just having data isn’t enough. For maximum results, that data also needs to be shared with and used by every stakeholder in the supply chain. […]

How to Excel at Corporate Social Responsibility

Consumer trends today are clear — shoppers demand better social, environmental, and economic conditions throughout corporations’ supply chains. The footwear, apparel, and retail industry has been under especially intense scrutiny in recent years. Consumers are more informed than ever before. Sixty-three percent of consumers view shopping as a means of change, and among millennial consumers, […]

How to Maximize ROI on Your Compliance Programs

The benefits of outsourcing production — which include lower costs and well-equipped factories — have long been countered by the difficulty of conducting effective compliance audits. While essential for any company with overseas suppliers, conventional audits remain an expensive and inefficient means of monitoring compliance and sustainability in the supply chain. “Persistent scandals involving illegal […]

The Importance of Supply Chain Technical Audits and How to Make Them Count

In today’s global supply chain, risk assessment is among the most critical survival skills brands and retailers can possess. For companies with production facilities in faraway places, technical audits are an important tool to evaluate if vendors and factories have the appropriate internal manufacturing processes and quality control systems to deliver high-quality products and maintain […]

4 Hidden Costs of Non-Compliance

Compliance is climbing up the agenda of supply chain executives around the world, and the development and implementation of effective compliance programs is consuming an increasing amount of time, talent, and capital for organizations. As laws and regulations expand both internally and externally, companies must spend more and more resources addressing them, which gives birth […]