Quality Management Solutions For Manufacturers: Some Assembly Required

The combination of regulatory, customer, and globalization pressures is creating a "perfect storm" for compliant manufacturers. As compliance mandates grow, nearly all manufacturers face business imperatives to better manage and document process control and product traceability through improvements in plant visibility, interplant scalability, and supply chain coordination. Although process support is fragmented across the application landscape, a smart combination of capabilities from enterprise resource planning (ERP), quality management systems (QMS), product life-cycle management (PLM), and manufacturing execution systems (MES) can lower a manufacturer's total cost of quality compliance.