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Background of the thesis. Today, as global competition intensifies and globalization accelerates, companies must keep up with competition and growth by, for example, finding new suppliers for their components from all over the world. As a result, the repertoire of subcontractors is grow- ing all the time. There are big and sometimes very small subcontractors. Working in this field can sometimes be challenging and bring its own problems to quality. In the case company of this research quality issues between suppliers and company has been recognized. Many times, when quality problems are detected it is found out that the root cause has something to do with cooperation and communication between com- pany and supplier. Sometimes the size difference between company and supplier can be huge and this can be seen as differences of opinion on quality assurance and investing on quality. People working in the interface of the supplier and case company have no- ticed some signs of quality difficulties in this area. Also, silent signs from supplier side of the interface has appeared. There are lot of researches made from the area of supply chain collaboration (SCC). Col- laborative practices in supply chain can be described like for example in Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx et al. (2010) book where they are described as practices that enable independent mem- bers of supply chain to work together to plan and execute operations when they consider that this collaborative effort has an impact on actual performance. Also, there are re- searches on quality management in supply chain but usually they concentrate on the whole chain given results on using quality tools and managing methods. In this research the interest is in between the case company and four small Finnish sup- ply companies. And more specific in quality cooperation from suppliers’ point of view. Author of this research works in case company quality department in interface of sup- pliers and case company. From time to time so called silent messages, meaning unre- corded information, from suppliers’ side is received and the message of that information is telling there are many issues and areas bothering on suppliers’ side of cooperating. In B to B industry it is quite often forgotten that as company is trying to solve problems with their suppliers some of the answers could be found from their aftersales depart- ment. Meaning the company itself is someone else’s supplier and in that way part of the supply chain. A lot more cooperation between companies’ ...
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