VISIBILITY INTO YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN.
INTELLIGENCE TO ALERT YOU TO SUPPLIER PROBLEMS BEFORE THEY BECOME YOURS.
Quartz is a cloud-based software you can use to qualify new suppliers, monitor supplier production in real time,
identify potential problems and deal with them, and evaluate supplier performance.
We do this by providing a software platform that comes with out-of-the-box supplier management processes. Want to change the software to suit your supply chain? No problem. Our software can be quickly modified to match your unique business needs. Know exactly where the problems are in your operations with our real-time dashboards.
Take action today with automated email alerts and notifications.
POWERFUL OUT-OF-THE-BOX TOOLS TO HELP YOU MANAGE QUALITY
Supplier Qualification
Qualifying new suppliers can be tough. After they fill out your questionnaires and you visit their site, how do you decide whether or not they get onto your Approved Suppliers List? What if there are a lot of risks but they're the only ones who can do the customization you require? Sigma Solutions will provide you with supplier questionnaires designed to give you critical information your suppliers don't want you to know. Quartz will help you assess suppliers using nine criteria to determine a risk score, and allow you to create, track and manage all the actions required to start working with a new supplier.
Quartz comes with the following out-of-the-box tools
to help you manage suppliers
Supplier Monitoring
Outsourcing production to off-shore manufacturers can bring increased profits. But how do you keep tabs on a production line that is thousands of miles (and a few timezones) away? Keeping employees at your employees premises is expensive. And so is paying 3rd party inspection. Instead, suppliers can log into Quartz to upload daily production information including key leading indicators such as first pass yield, changes to raw materials, personnel changes, inspection results, etc. Reduce evening phone calls with your overseas suppliers by reviewing supplier information at your convenience. Discover and investigate potential problems before the product leaves your supplier's facility.
Supplier Actions
When you discover a potential issue with a supplier, create and assign actions directly in Quartz. See the status of your supplier actions as soon as you log in. Request pictures and videos, and have your supplier upload them directly to Quartz. No more enormous email threads - everyone can log into Quartz and see all the relevant information at their convenience.
Supplier Evaluations
Evaluating supplier performance and providing feedback to your suppliers is a critical part of managing supply chain costs, and an integral part of the 2015 version of the ISO 9001 standard. Quartz comes with a pre-defined process to assist you with quickly evaluating supplier performance. Evolution criteria customized to your organization within minutes. Create, track and manage actions to address any follow-up from a poor evaluation, all from within Quartz.
OFF-LINE ACCESS
No internet connection? No problem. Use Quartz offline, and sync up automatically when you're online again.
24/7 SUPPORT
All users have full-time access to Quartz's knowledgebase, easily searchable and available 24/7 to answer all your questions. Watch our video tutorials for step-by-step instructions on common operations. Call or email the support team anytime.
ACCESS FROM ANY DEVICE
You can use Quartz from your desktop computer, iPhone, smartphone, iPad or tablet. Download the Quartz app from Google Play or Apple's App Store. Compatible with every major browser.
SECURE
Rest assured your confidential information is secure in Quartz. Quartz uses 128bit SSL connection, just like on-line banking. Each of Quartz's multiple database servers keeps its own hourly backups. Those backups are copied daily to separate backup servers. Security is tested regularly using manual and automated recursion on every version of the the software that is released. Security testing is performed on test and live server farms using Netsparker and other tools. And, no third party code has access to the databases.
NOTHING TO INSTALL
Say goodbye to the hassles of desktop software. No more version updates or lost files. Quartz QMS is always online and just a click away.
WHAT HAPPENS IN CANADA, STAYS IN CANADA
Quartz was 100% developed in Calgary, Alberta. All data is hosted on Amazon servers located in Montreal. No data will travel outside of Canada. 100% of support staff is located in Calgary, Alberta.