From pork sausages to pet food, hardly a week goes by where consumers don’t hear about a dangerous product recall. And it’s not just food manufacturers. Ninety-six percent of manufacturers surveyed, ...

Firms that perform audits, reviews, or compilations have a little more than four months to implement the new risk-based quality management (QM) standards. The task may feel daunting, but Joe Lynch, ...

Good managers seek to contain costs in the manufacturing environment. There is no better cost to eliminate than the cost of poor quality. Scrap material and lost labor hours add no value to the ...

If your business is starting to grow quickly, you’ve likely discovered it needs a sturdier foundation to better scale your customer support/service team. A robust foundation is what enables support ...

There is much discussion about continuous improvement, kaizen and operational excellence pursuits in operations management. Many times, the topic of process improvement neglects the more important ...

Strictly speaking, if you have a rigorous quality process in place, there should be no reason for a discussion of rework. In fact, it might be said that rework is the result of not having rigorous ...

The AICPA A&A Focus webcast on May 7 featured timely updates and strategic insights on key accounting and auditing topics. Hosted by Bob Durak, CPA, CMGA, director of A&A Technical Services at the ...

Don Cowan and Mahyar Mohammadnezhad of Kiwa PI Berlin explain the importance of upstream diligence in ensuring long-term PV ...