While robust supplier quality management visibility and product traceability may be considered a huge bonus in many industries, within the Aerospace & Defense industries, they are rapidly becoming a prerequisite merely for doing business. The complexity of A&D components, tight industry regulation, and consolidating supplier base require closed-loop quality processes to ensure the most effective and agile response to supplier quality issues. 

This Research Spotlight explains the steps to architecting closed-loop quality processes as they relate to specific challenges faced in A&D as well as benchmark data on the considerable impact they can have on manufacturing performance.