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Supplier Quality Management Software for Life Sciences

Manage your supplier quality management processes across your supply chains, from initial qualification and selection through ongoing monitoring and performance measurement.

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Comprehensive Supplier Quality Management Within a Complete eQMS

SimplerQMS Supplier Quality Management Software solution helps you manage all supplier-related quality processes in a single system.

SimplerQMS provides a supplier management module that is part of a complete eQMS solution, which includes all core QMS modules such as document control, training management, change management, nonconformance management, CAPA management, and more.

The following are some of the core capabilities of our supplier management software solution.

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Evaluate, Qualify, and Manage Your Suppliers

Streamline supplier qualification, performance evaluations, and subsequent supplier performance monitoring using pre-configured workflows based on Life Science requirements.

Manage supplier qualification process from start to finish – select the responsible persons in the workflow, define the supplier category, perform qualification tasks, and manage reviews.

Maintain your approved supplier lists (ASL), and use document templates to create records for contracts, surveys, evaluations, certificates, incoming inspections, and more. Manage all your supplier records in an integrated cloud-based system. Easily define access levels to prevent unauthorized user access.

Streamline Supplier Audit Processes

Supplier audits are an important part of supplier quality management but can be time-consuming and resource intensive.

SimplerQMS simplifies planning, managing, and tracking of supplier quality audits. Create supplier audit plans and have relevant people automatically notified by email about their assignments and due dates.

Utilize customizable views and have all supplier-related data readily available. Also, during the audit situation when you need to show the relevant evidence to inspectors and auditors quickly.

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Overview Status of Your Suppliers

Schedule supplier requalifications, reviews, assignments, and periodic tasks and have an overview of all processes.

Relate supplier documents to products, departments, customers, non-conformances/deviations, CAPAs, supplier quality issues, audit plans, and other relevant files while drafting your document with just a few clicks.

Drag and drop files and emails to suppliers to store records in one location, which is accessible for relevant employees and during audits.

Export data from your views to further analyze trends, such as the number of qualified suppliers, the number of supplier-related issues, suppliers with periodic tasks pending, and more.

Integrate With Other Quality Processes

Different tools for different quality processes can make it difficult to get a holistic view of supplier quality performance.

SimplerQMS supplier quality management software integrates all core quality processes, such as document control, training, change management, CAPAs, audit management, and more.

For example, you can easily create Supplier Corrective Action Reports (SCAR) directly from a non-conformance/deviation and have all documents interlinked.

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Connect to Other Software Applications

Reduce data silos by connecting all software in your organization.

Integrate SimplerQMS with your existing applications, such as ERP or SCM solution, using an open API.

Ensure Compliance With Regulatory Standards

SimplerQMS provides features that support supplier quality management processes and help you achieve compliance with regulatory requirements, such as FDA cGMP, ISO 13485:2016, FDA 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 9001:2015, and others.

Pre-configured workflows based on life science requirements allow you to define the supplier category, create supplier audit plans, and more.

FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11 compliant electronic signatures time-stamped audit trails are included to ensure complete traceability of your QMS.

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What Customers Achieve With SimplerQMS

Utilize Proven Technology

SimplerQMS is built on Microsoft & M-Files Technology which serves over 5,000 customers worldwide.

Pass audit more easily

Access needed documentation and present it to the auditor with a couple of clicks from anywhere in the world.

Gain high level of traceability

Gain cross-functional visibility and trace back to the root cause of each nonconformance.

“It’s very flexible, smooth, and easy to use. Documents no longer get lost and the whole history of all products is accessible for anyone at any time.”

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Christian Schärfe Thomsen

Project Manager, Cortex

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Document Control

Keep your documents audit-ready while managing a high volume of data accurately.

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Training Management

Develop employee competence while maintaining compliance. Streamline the training process with learning rules and training groups, automate task assignments, reminders, and more.

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Change Management

Streamline change control processes from change request submission to final approval and successful implementation.

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Deviation Management

Enhance investigation, documentation, and resolution of deviations through a streamlined deviation management process.

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CAPA Management

Enhance your corrective and preventive actions to enforce continuous improvement and resolve issues as they arise.

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Complaint Management

Streamline your complaint management workflow and turn complaints into product improvement opportunities and increase customer satisfaction.

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Audit Management

Reduce the time and effort needed to pass audits successfully by streamlining audit-related activities.

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Risk Management

Consolidate and organize risk management documentation throughout all quality processes.

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Equipment Management

Simplify the equipment registration, calibration, and maintenance tasks with straightforward workflows.

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Electronic Batch Records

Improve efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance by automating your batch records processes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Supplier Quality Management (SQM) is a process that enables organizations to ensure that their suppliers meet all the requirements and provide products of the required quality.

It involves the creation of approved supplier lists (ASLs), setting internal criteria for suppliers, qualification of suppliers, assessment of supplier performance, auditing suppliers, and so on.

Supplier Quality Management software is a tool that helps organizations to streamline the management of their suppliers and ensure that they meet all the requirements.

It enables organizations to qualify and categorize suppliers, assess their performance, and plan supplier audits to check for conformity.

Features like automated document routing, notifications, reminders, customizable supplier status views, monitoring reports, and others, make it easier for companies to manage supplier-related processes.

Some of the most popular SimplerQMS Supplier Quality Management software features include the following:

Integrated and cloud-based system. Easily store, share, and manage all your supplier-quality documents in one system.

Electronic signatures. FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11 compliant electronic signatures make it easy to get sign-offs on documents and track who has signed them.

Time-stamped audit trails. All actions taken in the software are time-stamped and auditable to ensure complete traceability of your supplier quality management system.

Microsoft Office integration. Work with your documents in the familiar Microsoft Office interface using applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Integration with other quality processes. Interconnect your supplier quality management system with other quality processes, such as document control, training, change management, non-conformances, audits, CAPA, risk management, and others. Plus, you can integrate SimplerQMS with your ERP solution through an open API for a complete solution.

Pre-configured workflows. Use integrated workflows based on Life Science requirements to save time and ensure compliance.

The total cost of SimplerQMS depends on the type and the number of licenses you purchase.

SimplerQMS supplier quality management software is part of a complete QMS solution, which includes all QMS modules, implementation, training, ongoing support, validation, hosting, and more, for one subscription price.

This means that everything is included in the price, and there are no other costs associated with subscribing to SimplerQMS.

Please visit our pricing page if you are interested in learning more about the license type and the many features and services included.

SimplerQMS Software typically takes five to six weeks to be implemented.

Supplier management is integral to our eQMS solution and can be implemented after document control, change management, and training management modules.

Implementation times may vary depending on the number of documents that need to be created and/or migrate and the company’s resources.

What Our Customers Say

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“Spending most of my day using SimplerQMS, I would say I am very pleased with the ease of use.”

Dorthe W.

QA/RA Manager, Cortex Technology

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“SimplerQMS gave us excellent pricing, customer support for understanding how to use their system and set up our QMS, and is easy to use.”

Subba S.

Chief Technology Officer, CollaMedix

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“Easy to work with. Intuitive. Rather easy to setup. Very good customer support. Good quality to price ratio.”

Jean Claude M.

Head of Hardware and Software Development, hemotune

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