SUNNYVALE, Calif., September 29, 2009—MetricStream, the market leader in Global Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions and SigmaQuest Inc., the leader of On-Demand, scalable solutions for product quality management, are hosting a webinar titled, “Optimizing Your Supply Chain Using Leaner Business Practices—Ensuring Greater Supplier Quality.” The webinar is targeted toward OEMs and suppliers developing medical device, telecom, military, aerospace, consumer electronics, cleantech energy and electronics-based products.

Event Details:

Date:               Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Time:               9:00 am Pacific/12:00pm Eastern

To register:      http://bit.ly/2Im9Wm 

 About the Webinar

Managing supplier quality is essential to running a successful business.  Yet, as OEMs continue to seek cost reductions, supplier specified tests are often skipped which leads to the shipment of lower-quality materials.  At the same time, many OEMs are faced with reducing internal operations teams due to budget cuts.  The leaner inspection resources are not as likely to catch poor-quality components.  In this webinar, OEMs will learn how to mitigate supplier quality problems with simple and reliable processes that deliver comprehensive, real-time quality data from outsourced suppliers, get root cause analysis of quality problems and remediate/charge back poor quality costs from the supplier.  Through these tools, attendees will learn how adopters of the approach have lowered costs and achieved greater customer satisfaction.
 

Highlights of the webinar include information on the following:

• Tackling supplier quality challenges in the global supply chain
• Techniques to identify product-quality issues and get the “right” data from outsourced suppliers
• Initiating supplier-quality processes for corrective actions and charge backs
• Reducing time to identify and resolve supplier quality
• Minimizing product liability and risks
• Achieving optimal customer satisfaction via the delivery of higher-quality products 
   

 Featured Speakers:

 Carl McCauley, Vice President, Quality Management Solutions, MetricStream 

Carl is responsible for managing customer relationships and working with MetricStream's customers to identify areas where MetricStream solutions can improve their business and add value to their operations. Prior to this role, Carl was the Chief Operating Officer of Visiprise, Vice-President of Software Operations at Teradyne, President and CEO of BrightPost Solutions, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Software Development at Fischer International Systems Corp, and Vice President of Software Applications at IVI Checkmate (formerly Checkmate Electronics).

Al Alaverdi, Co-founder and Vice President of Customer Advocacy, SigmaQuest
Al brings over twenty years of experience in testing and manufacturing software development to SigmaQuest.  During his tenure at SigmaQuest, he has led the development of best-in-class product quality management software and has collaborated with numerous electronic system companies to help them attain optimal product quality results.  Prior to SigmaQuest, Al was the founder and President of CodeServ, a software consulting company specializing in electronic systems manufacturing.  Codeserv had multi-million dollar contracts with Sun Microsystems, Anritsu, and Solectron.  Prior to CodeServ, Al served in several engineering and management capacities at Amdahl and Antares Alliance Groupwhere he was responsible for process engineering and for the development of tools to enhance product performance and manufacturing efficiencies.  This experience, combined with his background in computer science, provides the unique manufacturing and IT expertise that forms the center of SigmaQuest's offering.  Al holds a BSCS from University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and an MSCS from the Santa Clara University.

About MetricStream 

MetricStream is a market leader in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Solutions for global corporations. MetricStream solutions are used by leading corporations such as Pfizer, Philips, NASDAQ, UBS, SanDisk, BP, Subway, Fairchild Semiconductor, Hitachi and TaylorMade-Adidas Golf in diverse industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Automotive, Food, High Tech Manufacturing, Energy and Financial Services to manage their quality processes, regulatory and industry-mandated compliance and corporate governance initiatives, as well as by over a million compliance professionals worldwide via the www.ComplianceOnline.com portal. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and can be reached at www.metricstream.com.

About SigmaQuest

SigmaQuest Inc., is the product quality management on-demand leader.  The company’s SigmaSure™ is delivered as software as a service.  It combines automatic factory floor and return center data collection with powerful root-cause analysis to enable its customers to lower production costs and reduce product returns.  SigmaQuest customers are leading brand owners and manufacturers in medical device, telecom, military & aerospace, consumer electronics and cleantech energy sectors. The company’s market-changing approach has been recognized in Managing Automation’s Top Ten Companies to Watch, Manufacturing Business Technology’s Top 40 Emerging Vendors, Test & Measurement World’s  “Best in Test” awards, and Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s  “Executive 100” list.

The company can be reached at 408-524-3180 or www.SigmaQuest.com, and is located at 440 N. Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.

 SigmaQuest and SigmaSure are trademarks of SigmaQuest Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.