Topic - Supplier Management
Navigating our way through supplier management can seem very confusing when it comes to how much we really want to do, and how much we really need to do to make our supply chains and products stronger. Even established systems need to be looked at occasionally to determine if supplier performance and compliance is maintaining effectiveness. During this presentation we will discuss some of the primary activities used for effective supplier maintenance compliance such as determining the criticality of suppliers and management tasks. Supplier management tools such as quality agreements to align expectations from both parties, questionnaires, how important are ISO certifications from your suppliers, managing the web of multi-facility suppliers, scorecard development and criteria to examine, and change notifications (both from the suppliers and from you to your customers) will also be discussed.
Speaker - Brenda Bolivar
Brenda (seen here with her favorite co-worker, Kawi) has recently joined Putnum
Plastics Corporation (PPC) in August 2024 as a supplier Quality Engineer. She has
over 30 years of experience in various quality roles, with the past 10 years focusing on
supplier management. Prior to PPC, she worked for Organogenesis for over 18 years.
Her background includes extensive supplier management and auditing, along with
experience with most quality processes. She has conducted nearly 200 supplier audits
including everything from slaughterhouses to testing labs to sterilization providers to
CMOs, and everything in between. In her current position, she is restructuring the
supplier management system to align with the recent growth of PPC.
She has also been a Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) instructor in Massachusetts
for 18 years teaching beginners how to ride motorcycles. Her hobbies include traveling,
fishing, tying flies for fly fishing, riding her motorcycle, and almost anything outdoors.
Brenda has earned a BA degree in Geology with a Geography concentration from the
University of Maine at Farmington. Her ASQ certifications include Quality Auditor,
Calibration Technology, Six Sigma Green Belt, Medical Device Auditing, and Quality
Management. She has been an ASQ Senior Member since 2007.
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