Benefits of Impactiva’s Leather Quality Assurance Services
Reduce Your Risk
- Limiting square feet shipped with problem to ≤ 2.0%.
- Improving your footwear on-time delivery by +15 days, lead time reduction (leather can go directly to cutting, leather does not sit around while claims are negotiated).
- World-class control of your physical-chemical testing process.
- Achieving organizational tranquility as “noise” due to leather problems is virtually eliminated (frees Production leadership to perform more productive tasks), claim reduction.
- Creating a win-win atmosphere in your supply chain with fully appreciative tanneries and factories!
Increase Revenues
- Achieving “Best-of-World” leather quality in your footwear significantly differentiating you from your competition.
- Avoiding lost sales from unhappy customers who are “burned out” due to poor leather quality.
Reduce Costs
- Significantly eliminating ≥ US$0.12 / sq. ft. of waste-errors in your leather supply chain.
Tanneries Reduce
- internal and external rework (chemicals, labor, transport)
- un-shippable leather sold at a discount
- air-freight of leather
- customer service and admin staff dealing with claims
- overtime
Factories Reduce
- cutting losses due to better trimming and % clean area received
- components or shoes destroyed due to defective leather
- overtime (due to less disruptions in production schedules)
- leather warehouse inspectors
- purchasing staff handling claims
- B grading of shoes
- air-freight of shoes
- retailer claims-returns
The tanneries:
- Increase their sales as they use QUALITY as a competitive advantage.
- Achieve substantial cost savings as waste/errors are eliminated.
- Reduce risks as claims drop below 2% of shipped sq. ft.
- Technical staff “see and live” the quality problems in-house (continuous improvement in quality over time).
Your Impactiva Leather Quality Assurance Team:
- Technicians: permanently stationed at your Tanneries.
- Tech Leaders: coaches, mentors and supports up to eight Technicians.
- Production Leader: responsible for Tech Leaders.
- Technical Customer Account Management (TCAM) Coordinators: responsible for defining specifications for each style before each season.
- TCAM Brand Leader: your principal contact point and responsible for TCAM Coordinators.
- TCAM Leader: responsible for TCAM Brand Leaders.
- Internal QA Team: recertifies Technicians every six months ensuring continued compliance with Impactiva’s processes and procedures.
- R&D Engineering Team: recommends improvements to existing processes and procedures.
