The service "Supply Chain Quality Management" of TÜV Rheinland Berlin Brandenburg supports buyers and suppliers to ensure the safety and quality of goods. It works as a problem solver, going beyond the conventional production surveillance. It pays special attention to all areas of production including; pre-production services, like design and market research, during production services like pre-shipment inspections, and after production services, such as; recycling matters and customer satisfaction
Supply Chain Quality Management is entering a very exciting phase. Advances of information technologies have of course propelled many breakthrough ways to manage supply chains. Both e-commerce and m-commerce (mobile-commerce) are central to these evolutions. More recently, the continual wireless technologies developments, coupled with RFID (radio-frequency identification) technologies, presented yet another innovation opportunities. These technologies, together with intelligent software systems, could provide super-smart ways to run the supply chain, as well as to give us means to monitor and control the supply chains that would ultimately provide security throughout the supply chains. Despite the threat of terrorist attacks, “smart and secure supply chains,” will be the new era of Supply Chain Quality Management.