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So you're the new Quality Manager.
And you've got some tough expectations to fulfill.
Good thing you've got BLACKBIRD PTMS …
You accepted the job of Quality Manager knowing that in a big integrated multi-product mill it would be a challenge like no other. They’re expecting you to establish this mill as one of the top quality producers in the industry. That’s why you demanded they install BLACKBIRD PTMS - there’s no way it could be done if they relied on the old manual methods or outdated systems from the past.
One reason you’re successful is because you know that Quality demands are vastly different from even just a few years ago. You need the latest technology to survive in the environment your company faces today. You’ve learned to react quickly and take action based on solid, concise data. You’ve learned to deal with expectations from Senior Management, Head Office, the Sales group, ISO standards - and if a customer has a problem, it’s your problem too. All these things have to be considered in the Quality program and you have to manage it with fewer and fewer people in your group. Fortunately, BLACKBIRD PTMS is the answer – the deployment of high technology to meet the demands of all the Quality stakeholders, while allowing you to provide the best quality management in the industry.
You’ve gotten used to:
- Your ability to constantly upgrade and implement Product Specs with no mistakes.
- Timely and accurate reporting of quality performance.
- Compliance with the relevant ISO procedures.
And BLACKBIRD PTMS does all this well. But now there are more stakeholders and they want more information, more quickly and without error!
Fortunately for you, BLACKBIRD PTMS can deliver it all!
With your experience and with BLACKBIRD PTMS, you have some idea of where expectations may lead:
- Specifications covering both process and finishing characteristics – from the right furnish to the right stencil, even the right ink color.
- Product that exactly meets these very unique, complex specifications.
- The ability to create trial and one-off specs easily, with your guarantee that the shipment matches them – all done without extra manpower in the finishing and loading areas.
- A demand for detailed breakdowns of quality for each shipment, even for each bale – there’s no way to be the best in the industry if you can’t demonstrate that each bale has documented quality, and an accurate moisture and weight.
- Certificates of Analysis customized to their specific needs, and to the hundreds of different specifications they might decide is needed.
- Immediate document transmittal, even before the ship leaves your dock.
- Accurate documentation, with no errors, that can pass ISO and Customer Audits
- Detailed auditing, not just to help with Sarbannes-Oxley compliance, but also to let you be confident things are operating okay even while you're out of the mill.
But you’re dealing not just with individual issues, but rather with trends in the industry. You need a system that can grow. You need to know there’s a Quality Management system in place that makes sure everything runs smoothly to deliver everything you’ve promised, and that can grow with your needs and with developments in the future. For now, that may be confidence that moisture testing is accurate and that calibrations are recorded, or that grade changes are being made cleanly without excessive transition downgrades. But who knows about tomorrow? In other words you have to make sure that you can continue to squeeze out every ounce of economic value and competitive advantage that you can, both now and then. Good thing you have the industry’s best tool for making this happen – BLACKBIRD PTMS!
With BLACKBIRD PTMS, all of these requirements, and more, are managed easily and routinely in your quality, inventory, loading and shipping functions.
BLACKBIRD PTMS isn’t just a quality system. It isn’t just a production tracking system. It isn’t just a warehousing system. It isn’t just order fulfillment. Rather, BLACKBIRD PTMS is all of these things, integrated with your process management system and your corporate financials or ERP/EAM system. And for your company, it can grow to bring all of these systems at each mill together into one coherent enterprise-wide quality, product tracking and sales management system. This is the only way to consistently guarantee that your company follows through on its promises. That’s because BLACKBIRD PTMS was designed for just that purpose by market pulp professionals with decades of pulp and paper experience.
Your competition is using information systems to stack the odds in Quality and Customer Service. Why not go one better with the ‘best-of-breed’ system – BLACKBIRD PTMS?
To see more, and to understand how BLACKBIRD PTMS can guarantee you’re On Track, On Time, On Budget in Quality, contact us today.