Supplier Quality Assurance – Step to Competitive Advantage

Abstract

This paper aims to provide the main directions for the standardization of Suppliers Quality Assurance (SQA) processes. The standardization of such processes is to provide a "same face" to SQA areas, allowing their interaction, exchange of information, adoption of best practices and achievement of better and comparable results, besides the recognition, by global Suppliers point of view, of only one company.