Supply Chain Quality System for the HPC project

Creation with HPC and management of the supply chain quality functions:

• Quality Management Leads (QMLs, in the UK and in France): perform end-to-end management of quality on a specific contract. Assystem was responsible for ensuring that the product delivered to site was in compliance with the HPC contract, working closely with the audit team.
• Audit: Managing the programme of audits for main HPC suppliers, ensuring manufacturing of components or systems complies with the contract from HPC.
• Manufacturing Hub (FR): Based from Paris, this department ensured the co-ordination of all of the manufacturing surveillance across the supply chain working closely with the QMLs and Audit team.
• Quality Planning & improvements aligned with ONR (Office for Nuclear Regulation) Site Licence Condition 6 (documents, records, authorities and certificates) and Non-Conformity Report concerns.

• Time savings for recruitment and on-boarding of new resources, enabling a high number of new recruits required by the client (80% of all NND (New Nuclear Build) quality recruits are from Assystem)
• Reduction of issues thanks to the reduction of interfaces with a single supplier interface for all aspects of supplier quality
• Good coordination and work with a high number of suppliers thanks to involvement of International team able to working across UK, France and other countries
• Mobilising highly competent and knowledgeable staff at short notice to assist in lessons learned and pre-operation of the plant e.g. engineering and commissioning (with a high level of EPR experience from design through to commissioning on FA3 and OL3)
• Preventing peaks and falls of demand for the customer and implementing of a graded approach to the use of junior or senior people thanks to a structured approach to Quality Provision