Quality Control
Advanced's Quality Control (QC) Services: Ensuring Every Item is Perfect
When minor imperfections can lead to returns, negative reviews, and a damaged brand image, Advanced Supply Chain’s rigorous Quality Control (QC) services provide a critical layer of assurance that every item meets your exact specifications and brand standards before it leaves our care.
Your Brand, Our Uncompromising Standards
With decades of experience in high-volume fulfilment and value-added logistics, we understand the intricate details that define a quality product. Our dedicated QC teams act as an extension of your own brand, meticulously inspecting goods at strategic points throughout the supply chain – from inbound receipt to pre-retail finishing.
Our comprehensive QC services are designed to:
- Protect Your Brand Reputation: Catching imperfections before they reach your customers, safeguarding your brand’s commitment to excellence.
- Minimise Returns and Complaints: Reducing the costly impact of faulty or unsatisfactory products.
- Ensure Retail Readiness: Guaranteeing garments are perfect for immediate display, enhancing the shopping experience.
- Uphold Compliance: Verifying that products meet specified industry standards and your internal quality benchmarks.
Business Benefits to our comprehensive QC services
Our QC process is systematic and thorough, designed to identify and address issues at the most effective stages. We offer a range of inspection levels, tailored to your specific needs and product types:
- Inbound Goods Inspection: Verifying the quality and quantity of incoming stock against purchase orders and specifications, flagging any initial discrepancies.
- Post-Processing Checks: After value-added services like garment cleaning, pressing, or repairs, we conduct detailed inspections to ensure the work meets our stringent quality benchmarks and your expectations.
- Pre-Retail Final Inspection: The critical last check before dispatch to your stores or end customers. This comprehensive review covers:
- Fabric Integrity: Checking for snags, pulls, holes, or inconsistencies.
- Stitching Quality: Ensuring strong, even, and consistent seams.
- Embellishments & Hardware: Inspecting buttons, zippers, sequins, embroidery, and other detailing for security and correct application.
- Colour Consistency: Verifying shade matching across garment components.
- Measurements & Sizing: Confirming adherence to size charts and specifications.
- Labelling & Packaging: Ensuring correct swing tags, care labels, and packaging for presentation.
- Presentation: Checking for creases, wrinkles, and overall hang or fold quality.
We offer:
PAT Testing Metal Detection Inspections
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Our QC services are fully integrated with our award-winning Vector WMS software, providing you with complete visibility and control:
- Real-time Reporting: Access detailed QC reports and data, allowing you to monitor quality trends and make informed decisions.
- Traceability: Track individual garments through their inspection journey.
- Data-Driven Insights: Our QC data can help you identify common issues, feeding back into your manufacturing processes for continuous improvement.
At Advanced Supply Chain, we don’t just move garments; we refine them.
Our commitment to quality control means your products are not just delivered, they are perfected.
Ready to ensure flawless quality for every garment?
A Lacoste success story
Lacoste
Learn how ASC's range of Value Added Services (VAS), underpinned by Vector, helped Lacoste establish a UK warehouse and fulfilment centre to overcome UK-Europe border delays.
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