Internship: Quality KPI - Cost of Poor Quality Internship in Veghel, Netherlands

A challenging role with Vanderlande will help you to develop your career and satisfy your ambitions. We are the global leaders for value-added logistic process automation at airports and in the parcel market, as well as a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses. Our systems are operational at more than 600 airports – including 14 of the world’s top 20 – the world’s leading parcel companies, and 12 of Europe’s top 20 e-commerce companies.

Established in 1949, Vanderlande employs more than 4,500 people in more than 100 countries, all committed to moving our customers’ businesses forward. Our unique capabilities include integrating hardware, software and services into tailor-made solutions. The result is a distinctive track record in innovation, reliability and partnership. Our global presence provides an unrivalled 100 site-based teams, who ensure that our customers enjoy an optimum level of performance, 24/7.

Through building strong relationships – as well as enjoying our work and a more varied social life – the focus at Vanderlande is on the freedom to express ourselves while being trusted to deliver on every level. This is one of the key criteria on which Vanderlande has been assessed to become the number one Best Employer in The Netherlands for 2016.

If you’re ambitious and would like your career path to lead you to the fast-moving world of Vanderlande, then please contact us to set these challenges in motion.

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Internship: Quality KPI - Cost of Poor Quality Job Description

Internship: Quality KPI - Cost of Poor Quality
Assignment type: Graduation
Start date: February 2018
Assignment duration: 4-6 months
Location: Veghel
Educational level: HBO / Bachelor
Desired study: Business & IT / ICT / Industrial Engineering & Business Management
Language: Dutch and English

Description of the department
The assignment will be executed at the Quality Assurance department of Vanderlande. The mission of this department is to deliver all supplied equipment, First Time Right on site.

To pursue this mission, the team of 11 FTE has a strong focus to achieve a mature product sourced at a mature supply chain. This maturity consists of establishing a manufacturable and reproducable product at a predictable supply chain.

The department is supporting R&D by industrializing new products in the supply chain. The quality level of the supplier is managed by performing audits, product quality inspections and consulting in improvements. To make a strategic quality assurance plan with the right decisions, the quality performance is measured and analyzed.

The department has to act on trends in this data to set priorities, solve structural issues and prevent issues to achieve First Time Right on Site.

Description of the assignment
Also at Vanderlande, the projects that deliver our systems to our customers, are not achieving a desired 100% yield. The goal is to deliver our systems to the customer, First Time Right and On Time. During project execution, extra costs are made when this goal is not achieved. Costs due to required rework or extra material will have a negative effect on the project’s yield.

These costs are a part of the Costs of Poor Quality (COPQ) within the organization.Every day, the Quality Assurance department is working to prevent COPQ and to achieve First Time Right on site. The focus is the manufacturing and delivery of our equipment to our customer’s site. 

The COPQ is a Key Performance Indicator of the work the Quality Assurance department delivers.The goal of this assignment is to provide insight in the direct COPQ within Vanderlande. The focus will be the execution of projects. At the end of the assignment, a method to measure and report the COPQ should be delivered. 


 

Internship: Quality KPI - Cost of Poor Quality Job Requirements

Your tasks / responsibilities
• Identify and investigate sources of COPQ.
• Make these sources measurable.
• Create a method to automatically report COPQ within the operations of Vanderlande.
• Ensure the COPQ reports are available and useable for the stakeholders.

Internship: Quality KPI - Cost of Poor Quality Application Information

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