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Sooner or Later!........... Foreign Object Debris - Becomes - Foreign Object Damage!

FOD-prevention programs can minimize FOD and its effects. According to experience, a program to control airport FOD is most effective when it addresses four main areas:

1/ Training
2/ Inspection by the airline, airport, and airplane handling agency personnel
3/ Maintenance
4/ Co-operation and co-ordination.

There are a number of ways we can assess the integrity of a Vendor/Supplier with the objective of improving the supplier performance.

Understanding the purpose of Receipt Discrepancy Processes and Component Reliability Assessment including warranty issues.

Why would we carry out a Vendor Survey?

Essentially it is a process which sits alongside the Supplier Evaluation Procedures and enables an ongoing assessment of the effectiveness of the supply chain arrangement with a given vendor.

What do we want to know concerning our vendors?

We want to know how effective is the product which is received from a particular supplier, and we measure this in a number of ways: