MetricStream, Inc. - MetricStream Honored for Innovation in Supply Chain Governance

MetricStream, the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management software solutions, was called to the 2009 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 in acceptance of its avant-garde band-aid for Supply Chain Governance.

Designed accurately to abode the accretion aggravation and animation consistent from accretion and sourcing operations that absorb bags of suppliers broadcast above the globe, MetricStream’s Supply Chain Governance band-aid enables ample organizations to accumulate and administer supplier quality, supplier risks and supplier achievement in an chip manner. In addition, the band-aid complete on MetricStream’s industry arch GRC Platform allows barter to identify, assess, abate and administer accumulation alternation risks for affair operational acquiescence and action accident administration (ERM) goals.

The 2009 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 recognizes accumulation alternation band-aid and account providers that are allowance barter and audience both acknowledge to the abatement and, added importantly, position themselves for advance ahead.

Key apparatus of the MetricStream Supply Chain Governance band-aid are:

Supplier Quality Management for implementing a connected and anticipated action for nonconformance recording and supplier antidotal action requests (SCARs) or corrective/preventive accomplishments (CAPAs) including investigation, abortion analysis, basis could cause analysis, supplier charge-back and aftereffect accomplishments above the supplier base.

Supplier Audit Management for streamlining supplier and bell-ringer audits, surveys, assessments and inspections to ensure that suppliers accommodated the accustomed artefact and action acquiescence requirements. The band-aid supports planning, scheduling and administering audits at limited supplier locations, allegory audits award as able-bodied as absolute analysis advertisement and aftereffect activities.

Supplier Performance Management for defining and barometer achievement goals and indicators (Key Performance Indicators - KPIs) for suppliers based on SLAs and affairs above a ample set of categories and metrics such as amount of poor quality, accumulation performance, responsiveness, adjustment accomplishment and visibility, allotment and charge-backs, innovation, chump complaints and amusing responsibility.

Supplier and Supply Chain Risk Management for enabling companies to identify, assess, abate and administer accident and uncertainties arising due to several affidavit including outsourcing, globalization, bounded and country legislations, bill fluctuations, bell-ringer quality, franchisee operations and disasters so as to abbreviate the appulse on business performance.

Supplier Scorecards and Dashboards for ecology all-embracing supplier achievement in real-time and tracking improvements to analyze top assuming and backward suppliers for able negotiations complete controlling based on harder facts.

Supplier Collaboration for streamlining interactions and advice barter on processes such as change requests, change notifications, artefact lifecycle and analysis plans.

"We are accustomed to be accustomed as an industry innovator by Supply & Demand Chain Executive,” said Shellye Archambeau, CEO at MetricStream. “During this downturn, the accumulation abeyant of acumen and optimizing the accumulation alternation cannot be ignored. This is audibly aboveboard in ample corporations area assorted businesses units and artefact curve transact with a all-around supplier abject creating a circuitous web of redundancies and inefficiencies in absence of an chip accumulation alternation babyminding framework.”

The 2009 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 and accompanying beat can be begin in the June/July affair of Supply & Demand Chain Executive and online at www.SDCExec.com.

About MetricStream
MetricStream is a bazaar baton in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Solutions for all-around corporations. MetricStream solutions are acclimated by arch corporations such as Pfizer, Philips, NASDAQ, UBS, SanDisk, BP, Subway, Fairchild Semiconductor, Hitachi and TaylorMade-Adidas Golf in assorted industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Automotive, Food, High Tech Manufacturing, Energy and Financial Services to administer their above processes, authoritative and industry-mandated acquiescence and accumulated babyminding initiatives, as able-bodied as by over a actor acquiescence professionals common via the www.ComplianceOnline.com portal. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and can be accomplished at www.metricstream.com.

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