Storage and shipment requirements are an important part of any supplier quality agreement. These may include:
• Stipulations regarding where raw materials are manufactured, a key consideration when contract manufacturers have multiple sites.
• Any pre-shipment requirements, such as requiring the supplier to inspect products according to to your checklist before sending any shipments to you. An integrated system makes it easy to do this by granting suppliers secure, permissions-based access to Supplier Quality Management applications within the QMS.
• Temperature and other conditions for storage. For example, when purchasing chemicals that aren’t stable through multiple freeze-thaw cycles, you might stipulate that the product be stored frozen and arrive frozen.
