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LineWorks SQM (Supplier Quality Management)

Incoming Material Quality Control for Your Entire Supply Chain

Elevating Supplier Quality Management

LineWorks SQM, an add-on module to LineWorks SPACE, empowers manufacturers to collaborate more effectively with global suppliers and subcontractors.

With electronic Certificates of Analysis (eCoA), you can implement, verify, and continuously improve quality standards across your entire supply chain. This module reduces the effort required for Incoming Quality Control (IQC), and in the case of trusted suppliers, IQC can even be bypassed entirely.

Supply chain quality management flow showing LineWorks SQM and CQM enabling eCOA-based quality data validation across Tier 3, Tier 2, Tier 1, and OEM.

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Automated Quality Data Checking from Suppliers

Ensure consistent quality and efficiency across your entire supply chain with digital data verification

Core Functions

Illustration of an integrated supply chain with LineWorks SQM, showing supplier facilities, electronic quality reports (eCOA), and approved material deliveries.

Integrated Supply Chain

LineWorks SQM connects suppliers and subcontractors in a unified digital framework with the electronic Certificates of Analysis (eCoA). This standardization ensures consistent quality control and real-time communication, reducing delays and enhancing collaboration.

Visual representation of integrated incoming material flow control in LineWorks SQM, featuring eCOA reports, automated quality checks, and digital material tracking.

Integrated Incoming Material Flow Control

The solution automates incoming materials verification with eCoA data, ensuring quality checks before acceptance. This process reduces manual inspections, prevents defects, and optimizes the flow of compliant materials into production.

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Improved Analysis Efficiency

LineWorks SQM uses advanced analytics and Statistical Process Control (SPC) to gain deep insights into supplier performance. Automated reporting and trend analysis help identify issues quickly, enabling data-driven decisions and continuous quality improvements.

Optimize Supplier Collaboration and Quality Assurance

Efficiently manage supplier relationships and streamline quality processes across your supply chain

Before dispatch, LineWorks SQM system automatically analyses supplier-uploaded quality data via eCoA. Suppliers receive real-time feedback, streamlining supply chain operations, enhancing efficiency, and minimizing the risk of receiving non-compliant materials. Ensuring that only products that meet your exact standards are in transit.
Illustration of supplier-to-manufacturer material flow, showcasing optimized supplier collaboration with LineWorks SQM. The image depicts a supply chain route with key checkpoints for material tracking, quality verification, and digital process integration.

Key Benefits for Manufacturers:

Faster Integration

Accelerate supply chain onboarding with streamlined quality approval processes.

Standardized Reporting

Implement a unified, comprehensive quality report for every stage of the value chain.

Reduced Risk & Cost

Eliminate human error in data entry and specification checks to minimize business risks and unnecessary costs.

Minimized IQC Effort

Reduce or eliminate the need for incoming quality inspections.

Enhanced Data Visibility

Share quality data across your fab and correlate it with your suppliers' performance.

Increased Productivity

Utilize a fast, user-friendly web portal for easy data uploads and notifications.

Automated Insights

Gain deeper insights through automated trend reporting, supplier ratings, and analysis.

Key Benefits for Suppliers:

Regulatory Compliance and Audit

The medical devices industry is no stranger to regulatory standards and evaluations to ensure the safety and efficacy of the product to patients. Whether it’s NDR, FDA, audits, or any other regulations, data integrity, quality, security, and traceability throughout the production process are of paramount importance.

Quality Control and Assurance

Traceability is the key to quality control and assurance by documenting every manufacturing process step. This can be crucial information for regulation and audit processes – even in case of a recall.

Technological Advancement and Integration

With the surge of technological advancements, digital solutions for the medical devices industry expanded. This brings a solution for a more effective and efficient manufacturing process and documentation – say no more to papers and physical archiving!

Cost Management and Pricing Pressure

The production costs can be high when prioritizing only the best quality outputs for the market and other factors. This can increase market prices, hindering its accessibility and affordability for consumers.

“LineWorks SQM is an integrated software solution to collaborate with subcontractors and suppliers at worldwide distributed production sites to implement, verify, and continuously improve own quality standards.”

Complete Quality Applications Suite for Your Supply Chain

Discover the Full Potential of Your Manufacturing with LineWorks SPACE

When integrated with LineWorks SPACE, LineWorks SQM and LineWorks CQM offer an even greater range of capabilities. The combination with the advanced online Statistical Process Control (SPC) system provides comprehensive insights, from supplier ratings to in-depth analyses such as Root Cause Analyses. This enables immediate corrective actions, improving both product quality and supplier relationships.

Illustration representing a comprehensive quality management suite for the supply chain with LineWorks SQM, featuring key elements such as quality assurance, eCOA documentation, material compliance, and certification processes.

LineWorks MQM (Material Qualification Management)

Tracks and qualifies all new supplier, manufacturing site, and/or engineering materials required for each process from suppliers.

LineWorks SQM (Supplier Quality Management)

Collect, process, and check each eCoA for each shipment from supplier to a given fab.

LineWorks CDM (Container Distribution Management)

Tracks and registers each container usage for each plant accepted by SQM.

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LineWorks QoS (Quality of Supplier)

Tracks each supplier performance for reporting and audit purposes.

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Strengthen the incoming quality control for your entire supply chain with LineWorks SQM.

Ensure consistent quality across your supply chain with LineWorks SQM. Automate quality validation, reduce manual inspections, and enhance traceability with eCoA. Contact our team to explore how LineWorks SQM can optimize your supply chain quality management.


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