EQMS Coexistence in an Enterprise Environment

Summary:

A topic with which industry professionals have wrestled for a number of years is the extent to which they should repurpose existing applications for the function of managing quality systems processes. Central to this discussion is the question of how – or if – an organization’s ERP should be extended for use in the quality systems area.

This paper examines the macro-level trends in both the ERP and quality systems application spaces, as well as key issues that should be considered by those considering whether to extend a company's ERP system for use as a quality management systems.

In addition, learn why organizations will achieve the most effective holistic quality system with the fastest time-to-value and time-to-productivity for their investment using a purpose-built enterprise quality management application with the appropriate integration with their other existing enterprise systems.