MetricStream, Inc. - Woolworths Selects MetricStream for Compliance and Quality to Drive TQM

MetricStream, Inc., the bazaar baton in enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions, today appear that Woolworths Food Division, the a lot of celebrated alternation of retail food in South Africa, has called MetricStream as the enterprise-wide belvedere for managing its Total Quality Management (TQM) action that covers quality, safety, audit, action and authoritative acquiescence programs. Woolworths will advantage the MetricStream band-aid to advice accomplish the consolidation, harmonization and streamlining of analytical business processes in their foods analysis through an automated and workflow-based approach.

A domiciliary name throughout South Africa, Woolworths sells a advanced ambit of articles including food, clothing, adorableness and homeware beneath its own characterization in over 400 food in South Africa as able-bodied as through authorization ally in Africa and the Middle East. Woolworths is advised an figure of above and its charge to TQM will added strengthen its adeptness to bear safety, quality, amount and addition to its customers. Woolworths has accustomed all-embracing acceptance and accustomed the celebrated Responsible Retailer of the Year accolade at the World Retail Congress 2008.

The ample calibration retail operation requires Woolworths to apparatus accurate procedures for affidavit and auditing to ensure acquiescence with centralized standards and authoritative requirements. As a result, streamlining processes and abbreviation the amount of acquiescence while advancement the accomplished above standards is a top priority. The MetricStream band-aid will accredit safety, above and acquiescence accompanying processes, annal and advice to be electronically managed enabling simple acceptance to abstracts with the adeptness to accomplish analytics from assorted ambit – for example, by supplier, product, artefact group, date, accident blazon and affair type. With this implementation, Woolworths will alter some chiral and paper-based systems that accomplish accumulating of abstracts circuitous and acutely time consuming.

Woolworths has called MetricStream to administer a aggregation of processes, including certificate control, abundance and supplier audits, above benchmarking, and antidotal accomplishments (CAPA). MetricStream emerged as the bell-ringer of best afterwards all-encompassing appraisal of its artefact appearance as able-bodied as appraisal of MetricStream platform’s scalability and affinity with Woolworths IT architecture. Woolworths aswell conducted onsite visits to and interviews with absolute MetricStream barter in the retail vertical as allotment of the alternative process.

“The accomplishing of MetricStream above our operations will aftereffect in added efficiency, greater quality, and added strategically, a harmonization of above processes throughout our foods organisation,” said Julian Novak, bounded administrator foods, at Woolworths. “The system’s affluent out-of-the-box appearance and configurability allows us to accumulate a amount of functions - abbreviation the amount of our above administration and acquiescence efforts above the accumulation and administration chain.”

“In the aggressive bartering environment, arch brands like Woolworths crave an chip appearance of abstracts and complete ascendancy on business processes to advance achievement and administer operational risks,” said Shankar Bhaskaran, Senior Director and Head of International Business at MetricStream. “MetricStream is admiring to plan with Woolworths and bear the allowances of able assurance and above management, bigger operational efficiencies and bargain costs through our bazaar arch solution.”

“MetricStream is arch the industry with its absolute quality, acquiescence and accident administration solution,” said Shellye Archambeau, CEO of MetricStream. “We are captivated that Woolworths Foods has called MetricStream to administer analytical business processes such as audits, supplier above and antidotal actions. We feel assured that we will accord decidedly appear convalescent Woolworths’ achievement metrics.”

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 www.ComplianceOnline.com portal. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and can be accomplished at www.metricstream.com.

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