PPE and safety products in stock at Quest Safety Products. To order, see your sales representative or order through our website. For questions, contact us at 317-594-4500 800-878-4872 email: safetycsr@questsafety.com www.questsafety.com
Solutions
Solutions
QSafe+ Solutions Product Standardization Across Sites Vendor Managed Inventory Supply Chain Management for “Critical to Operations” Products Kitting Services Beyond normal distributor responsibilities, Quest offers several value-added services that solve key problems for our customers.
QSafe+ Solutions are designed to improve your profitability, keep your employees focused on your core competencies and ensure that they are safe and productive.
Product Standardization Across Business Units & Sites Without compromising PPE quality and performance, Quest finds cost reductions through volume purchases. Our step-by-step process allows for manufacturer support, as well as site participation and employee engagement.
• Gain understanding of your business, potential workplace hazards and application needs • Identify products being used with their key features and benefits
Step 1 Understand Step 2 Analyze and Identify
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VMI
• Analyze field data, evaluate product specs across sites to identify product similarities. • Determine where product consolidation is possible based on end-user feedback
Step 3 Present
• Work closely with global and site HSE representatives as well as procurement leads. • Present findings on potential consolidation and resulting costs to key stakeholders.
• Compile consolidated usage data once product standardization approved. • Leverage increased volume to negotiate deeper discount from manufacturers. • .
Step 4 Leverage
1 • Once standardization implemented, determine new usage levels to avoid stock outages. • Create new min-max product inventory levels to ensure just-in-time delivery. Process follows the pharmaceutical industry change control & change management procedures 2 3 4 5 Step 5 Stock and Supply
Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) Program
Key Benefits
Better product availability improve end-user satisfaction. Includes regular access to Quest’s VMI and customer service team.
Increased Customer Care
Reduce Overstocks & Shortages
Lack of availability of the right products impacts quality and efficiency of work. Quest’s VMI can reduce overstocks and stock shortages that cause uncertainty.
Improved Operational Efficiencies
Program reduces your employee’s time to manage products Inventory and ensures consistent supply of the right product at the right time.
Onsite Technical Expertise
Allows better reporting; reduces administrative work, Your employees can focus more on strategic areas of their business.
Financial Advantages
Site-specific reporting and spend enables informed decision-makings Eliminates waste, non-value work and costs associated with inventory errors.
Vending Machine Options Available
Our VMI Program, including the management of associated assets, ensures that workers have what they need, when they need it, while improving inventory efficiencies.
• Safety/Touchless/Remote PPE Vending • Inventory Reduction • 24/7 Product Availability • Improves Inventory Accuracy
• Enables your employees to focus on your core competencies • Operational Savings • Brings order to small areas, storerooms, or remote sites
Supply Chain Management for “Critical to Operations” Products
Quest is successfully managing the complete supply chain for products where customers have significant problems or issues.
Increased Customer Care
JIT Shipping
Manage Manufacturer
Warehouse Product
• Ship to customer as per requirements • Meet customer schedule • Deliver directly to manufacturing line if required
• Inspect in-coming shipments to ensure product quality from manufacturer • Practice required “good house-keeping.” In some cases, products must be kept in isolated rooms within warehouse • Manage inventory according to GMP regulations • Ensure that customers receive Certificates of Analysis, Sterility, & Compliance with deliveries
• Our Purchasing Department creates strong relationships with manufacturers to ensure we have access that many other suppliers don’t have • Place orders to take advantage of best pricing and timing • Ensure adequate inventory to fulfill
customers’ needs plus cover manufacturers’ lead times
• Ideal for large volume products like fiber drums where customers have limited warehouse space • Value-added service for products that require long lead times • Enables your own employees to focus on your core business
Supply Chain Management for “Critical to Operations” Products
Increased Customer Care Quest is successfully managing complex supply chains for key customers with 99%+ on-time delivery
Large Volume Fiber Drums
Sterile Products
Three+ years of experience managing complete supply chains for “critical to operations” products with zero stock-outs or near-misses
Supply Chain Management for “Critical to Operations” Products
Quest has developed effective and rigorous processes to manage “Critical to Operations” products: from procurements through JIT delivery
DELIVERY & CONTROLS
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JIT • Customer’s lead
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VMI
• Follow First In, First Out warehousing procedures • Monitor expiration alerts • Use temperature- controlled environments when needed • Quest maintains agreed upon min/max stock levels
• Record quantity and lot numbers of items in stock • Report expiration dates as they approach • Provide usage reports to customer • Dedicated resource in times of emergency
• Insure certification documentation present with every shipment • Track lot numbers,
• Closely monitor lead times and usage levels • Create planned
• Collaborate to
operator places order • Quest’s picks and packs • Quest performs QA check before shipping • Quest VMI Specialist delivers the order directly to customer’s production line on day and time specified in order
develop monthly usage levels • Better understand customer-driven shipping intervals • Identify potential demand spikes • Ongoing planning sessions with customers
purchasing forecast to avoid outages
expiration dates, and serial numbers
• Communicate closely with manufacturers
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Just-in-Time Deliveries
Just-in-Time Flowchart Example
1. Quest manages stock for customer’s business line 2. Customer’s lead operator places order with Quest 3. Quest’s staff picks and packs customer’s order 4. Quest performs a QA check before order leaves our warehouse 5. Quest VMI Specialist delivers the order directly to customer’s production line on day and time specified in order
Quest Kitting Capabilities
More and more manufacturers are outsourcing Kitting Operations that are not Critical to their Core Competencies. Quest has over three years of kitting experience.
Kitting Services & Experience • Kitting for Pharma Companies, eCommerce and others • Quest produced over 150,000 kits in 2021 • Currently averaging 30,00 kits per week. • Includes on-demand kitting and pre-assembly for the creation of in-house stock items • Equipped to handle simple kits and basic packaging as well as complex kits with numerous components • Product categories include, but are not limited to, new hire safety kits, remote location kits, hand & arm protection, respiratory, eye protection, hearing protection, and more
Quest’s Quality Management System • Quest has a Quality System that follows the ISO 9000; 2015 Standard • Quest’s Quality System has been tested through an external audit • The Quality System currently encompasses GMP and regulation activities with the expectation of expanding this practice to the remainder of our organizational practices
Provides you a cost effective, efficient, & accurate alternative Allows your employees to focus on their primary work
Quest Kitting Capabilities
Life Science Kitting Line
Amazon Kitting Line
Solutions
Value-added solutions that improve your profitability, keeping your workers safe, productive, and focused on your core business.
Benefits
Programs
• Increased Safety • Cost Savings & Supply Chain Efficiencies • JIT Deliveries • Improved Inventory Management • Usage Monitoring and Controls • Real-Time Reporting • Focus your own employees elsewhere
Product Standardization Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) Supply Chain Management for “Critical to Operations” Products Kitting
Which Solutions Will Help Your Team Succeed?
Quest has over 25 years of experience working with Pharmaceutical and Life Science companies. With the best manufactures at our side, we excel at solving safety challenges so our customer can focus on their business, workers, and end-users.
Contact Information:
Mark Towner
Sam Yadav President
Vice President of Sales Markt@Questsafety.com
Samy@questsafety.com
317.863.6995
317.594.4500
Office: 317.594.4500/ 800.878.4878
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