Background
Supply Pilot has been working with a major US Retailer and their own brand quality team to maximize visibility of customer feedback and quality or consistency issues. With thousands of products (food and non-food) and hundreds of suppliers, the volume of feedback means internal quality teams must triage and focus on the core issues. The highest volume of issues of which were identified as safety issues. Leaving limited time to investigate and action organoleptic or preference-based feedback.
Solution
The Supply Pilot Platform was used to consolidate feedback across multiple channels (product testing, complaints and online reviews) to provide a consolidated view of product and supplier performance. Combined with unit sales, it also allowed complaints to be analysed on a complaints per million units (CPMU) basis for greater context.
Importantly, The Supply Pilot Platform also provided suppliers with the same information on all of their products; a consolidated view of issues and feedback.
This makes the Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) process more efficient; allowing them to work as ‘one team’ to ensure consistent quality.
It also increased the number of ‘eyes on’ so all suppliers could see all feedback and customer verbatims on the products they supply. This enabled suppliers to be more proactive in their management of quality and consistency across their products.
Impact
The system has now been in use for multiple years and has consistently enabled the brand and its suppliers to reduce their complaints per million units (CPMU) by over 10% Year-On-Year, and over 35% since the system was launched to suppliers, supporting the continued success and growth.