Essentials of Supplier Quality Management November 2, 2008

Essentials of Supplier Quality Management
- Developing and Maintaining Peak Supplier Performance

Date: 3rd-4th November 2008
Venue: Legend Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Effective supplier management is vital for an organizations quality improvement. This course covers best practice throughout the supplier management lifecycle incorporating selection, planning, monitoring and control.It will focus on the 4 most important areas such as supplier qualification, supplier selection , supplier evaluation and supplier development.The course will also look into the importance of supplier negotiation.
Objectives:

* Increase the probability of selecting suitable suppliers for its business
* Evaluate potential suppliers performance effectively
* Develop plans for managing suppliers
* Apply techniques for tracking and control supplier performance
* Understand what industry standards are and the ways of improving competitiveness
* Develop supplier performance
* Improve quality of products and services of an operation

Who Should Attend

Quality / Purchasing Managers, executives, engineers, teamlearders, supervisors and any other managers who are involved in evaluating, awarding and managing suppliers quality.
The Expert - Mr Thanaballan Velloo

Mr Thanabalan has extensive experience in the field of operations performance improvement particularly in various manufacturing and services industries. He is not only an excellent and resourceful trainer, he is also skilled in management and leadership of organizations. He graduated with a Honours degree in Management and Biochemistry from University of Science Malaysia in 1987. He also has an MBA from University Kebangsaan Malaysia, majoring in General Management. Mr Thanabalan started his career in the manufacturing operations as a Production Executive and gradually moved in various managerial positions such as Production Manager , Packaging Manager, Planning and Logistics Manager, Sales Manager and Factory Manager. To name a few of the organizations that he worked for are Baxter Healthcare, London Rubber Company, Solectron, Mona Industries and Asiatic Dipped Products. This experience has given him a thorough understanding of the opportunities and problems involved with managing work.

Since 1996, Mr Thanabalan has branched out into training and consultancy as well as lecturing various subjects in MBA programmes. He also lectures in University of Malaya and University of Technology Malaysia on a part-time basis as a visiting lecturer. To date he has conducted many public and in-house trainings in many business areas for government organizations and private sectors such as Ministry of Defence, TLDM, UMW, Titan Group, CS Metal Industries, Sharp Roxy, Petronas, ShinEtsu Sdn. Bhd., Triplus Industry, Metrod Sdn. Bhd., Shinko Electronics, Green Riverwood, Omron Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., Hap Seng Consolidated Bhd., YTY Industry, Maruyama Sdn. Bhd.,etc. Participants receive enhance benefits and impactful results from his training programmes because of his vast industrial exposure in various areas. He empowers people to increase their limits, level of commitment, higher level of performance of the individual, team and the organization in achieving organizational goals.

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