Digital Plant Management includes supplier compliance tools to remove the tedious and time-consuming activities in monitoring supplier tasks and communications. SafetyChain captures supplier compliance data and organizes documents and requests, giving you instant visibility into each of your suppliers’ performance over time.
Eliminate Paper & Emails
Simplify Supplier Processes
Improve Performance
Private Supplier Network
Own & Control Your Documents
Centralize Access & Cloud Storage
Real-Time Risk Monitoring
Supplier Task Management
Supply Chain Visibility
Issues with suppliers and raw materials breed challenges for everyone in the plant.
Front-Line Operators: Defective materials or late deliveries from suppliers increases workload and stress on the shop floor.
Production Managers: Operator mistakes escalate due to increased timeline pressure and low morale.
Quality Managers: Time is wasted searching for supplier compliance documents and scrapping data from supplier emails.
Plant Managers: Production rates are inconsistent due to poor raw material quality and needed corrective actions.
Corporate Management: Meeting customer demand is uncertain because of poor supply chain visibility and supplier control.
You need a supplier management solution everyone can rally behind.
Front-Line Operators: Relieve the pressure of being behind schedule with supplier workflows that ensure on-time delivery of quality product.
Production Leaders: Catch supplier non conformances before they reach your line and affect daily goals.
Quality Professionals: Rely on a single source of truth where you can automatically assign, find, review, and approve needed information.
Plant Managers: Surface overall trends and immediate issues on supplier quality dashboards for necessary production adjustments and supplier reporting.
Corporate Leadership: Track and compare supplier performance to de-risk supply chain volatility.
Know the status and location of all requirements in one place so nothing falls through the cracks.
Automated Tasks & Notifications: Define processes, reminders, and tasks alerts specific to high risk workflows, industries, and compliance. Ensure suppliers understand what's overdue, due today, and due in the future.
Verifications: Understand which records require your sign-off, and quickly review necessary quality and compliance information.
Accessibility: Implement easy tools for supplier adoption. Suppliers can:
Drag and drop documents and photos (3rd party audits, foreign supplier verifications, etc)
Add context to issues that need your attention.
Understand tasks associated with a their different locations.
Move beyond daily corrective actions and improve how suppliers interact with your business.
Performance Scorecard: Evaluate a supplier’s product quality, on-time delivery, and audit risk with a heat map of their performance.
Dashboards: Configure dashboards that compare suppliers, summarize outstanding internal and external tasks, and track compliance.
Supplier Digest: Automate a periodic roll up of all expired, overdue, and upcoming requirements.
Continuous Improvement: Assess performance data to inform and require questionnaires or sign-offs that determine whether suppliers are prepared for future compliance and certifications.
Supplier management that grows with your operations and fits into strategic planning.
Traceability: Quickly unify and associate data and identifiers (such as raw material, batch/lot codes, etc) with any process documented by your team during the production cycle.
Simplify Approval: Improve decision-making when evaluating current and future suppliers. Consider potential plant exposure to external risk factors, such as supplier environments, compliance history, and other sources.
System Integration: Robust APIs create a data flow between our platform and your existing systems (ERP or MES), ensuring supplier-related information is readily accessible and consistent throughout your organization.
No more epic journeys around the plant to find a document. Have resources ready to go at a moment’s notice.
Document Repository: Store and track all versions of critical supplier materials for industry certifications and audits.
Auditor View: Provide credentialed and secure access to an auditor’s specific area of interest. This includes adherence to ISOs, BRC, FSVP, GFSI, SQF, FSMA, and more.
Reports: Compile reports for upper management or customers within minutes of their request. Summarize CAPAs, complaints, compliance percentages, audit results, and more.
