Suppliers may accept audits as an inescapable cost of doing business. The time and effort spent on each audit may just be chalked up to overhead - over and over again. Unless the number of audits can be minimized. Less disruption, more production . Suppliers' employees work better without auditors looking over their shoulders every time they turn around.
Suppliers have better things to do than get ready for yet another audit.
Quality Managers will be free to concentrate on quality issues that take full time attention, and problems that demand urgent action. Instead of having to prove quality, there will be more time to improve it. A major part of Total Quality Management. Suppliers will not only meet high standards, they will help set them. They find out firsthand about changing customer needs and emerging industry trends, and get hands-on help to keep up with the industry and ahead of the competition.