The Costs of Production Delays for Vendors

Key takeaways: Production delays adversely affect all stakeholders, from manufacturers and suppliers to brands and retailers to customers. Suppliers have a unique set of costs when it comes to production delays, from damaged buyer relationships to overwhelmed employees. When production delays hit suppliers, it can quickly lead to a fear of losing buyers and a […]

Top KPIs for Data-Driven Quality Management

New digital platforms have revolutionized quality management. Though such platforms make quality more intuitive than ever before, using data to improve quality management across your supply chain is a continuous process — and one of the most important steps is identifying your top key performance indicators (KPIs). An expert on this topic is Jose Martinon. […]

Improving Vendor Production Management

Global vendors typically have many of third-party suppliers. As a result, supply chains are often intricate and fragmented. Even the smallest incident can quickly affect the whole network and cause important financial and reputational risks. As global supply chains become increasingly complex, vendors must find ways to gain transparency into their full networks so they […]

Why Self-Inspections are the Future of Quality Management

As global disruptions become more frequent, organizations are faced with increasing uncertainties. Dealing with these uncertainties — from pandemics to conflict to material shortages — means building flexibility and the power to respond rapidly. To meet these challenges, most brands and retailers turned toward self-inspections. What are self-inspections? A self-inspection program helps brands and retailers […]

The Cost of Production Delays for Apparel and Fashion Retailers

Key takeaways: In apparel and fashion, production delays account for well over a trillion dollars in lost revenue every year. The “cost of delays” refers to the amount of money that you — the brand or retailer — lose due to time spent without a product to sell. In simple terms, any day that a […]

What is Data-Driven Collaboration in the Supply Chain and How to Build It

As a vendor or manufacturer, you now have the ability to establish an entirely new kind of relationship with your clients — one where validated, real-time data makes you a better partner and a nimbler problem-solver. Those who have worked in quality assurance long enough know how inefficient conventional quality assurance methods can be. One […]

What is PLM software, and how is it different from Inspectorio? 

“Couldn’t we just hold all of this in our PLM?”  It is the question we hear most often from quality and IT teams, and it is fair. If your Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system already holds specifications, bills of materials, suppliers, and purchase orders, why should inspections and lab tests live anywhere else?  Because they […]

We Raised $50M to Lead the Transformation of the Production Chain

Written by Carlos Moncayo, CEO & Co-Founder of Inspectorio Yesterday, we announced we raised $50M, led by Insight Partners. I also had the opportunity to speak with Forbes about our journey. Inspectorio’s vision is to lead the transformation of the global production chain into an interconnected, empowered, and sustainable production network, and we are excited […]

[eBook] Top 4 KPIs for Data-Driven Quality Management

NB: This is an excerpt from our eGuide “Top 4 KPIs for Data-Driven Quality Management.” To download the full eGuide, click here. Data-driven quality management provides you with the unique opportunity to fill in information gaps by giving you 360-degree visibility within your production network. The next great step in data-driven quality management is the […]

The Benefits of Using Artificial Intelligence to Manage Quality and Compliance

Prepare to manage quality and compliance remotely COVID-19 accelerated the adoption of cloud technologies in the supply chain. This was due to the urgent need to connect with suppliers and manage the supply of goods at a distance. To make decisions remotely, managers at all levels needed to have accurate, complete, and real-time data on […]