Analysis of Ship to Use Program for Supplier Certification

Supplier development activities are the activities undertaken by the buying firms in order to improve the supplier performance. Supplier development involves efforts undertaken by manufacturing firms to improve their supplier?s capabilities and performance.. For parts supplied by suppliers, quality inspection by another entity is thus considered as a non value added activity. In the another way the high efficiency environment of the future requires that supplier processes, once proven capable of producing acceptable parts, be continually monitored & adjusted so they never produce unacceptable parts even for a few hours. Many of Original Equipment The STU program is a direct-on- line program in which the parts having ?STU? status will be directed towards the assembly line instead of going via receipt inspection. This means that there will be virtually no inventory for STU parts at the receipt inspection stage and there will be no lot by lot inspection for the entire validity period of the STU parts.