
Reducing Waste and Rework
High levels of scrap and rework signal a critical point in your quality maturity.
While late-stage detection prevents faulty products from leaving the factory, it also introduces costly inefficiencies-wasted materials, lost time, and reduced margins.
Here’s what you need to make the shift to early detection and prevention-addressing root causes before they escalate and embedding continuous improvement across your operations.
Signs you need to reduce manual effort now
without increasing headcount.
Signs you need to tackle waste and rework now

Waste-and-rework reduction with AlisQI delivers
tracks supplier performance and compliance to uncover and address risks.
Master waste and rework with AlisQI
• Information manually extracted and re-entered into Excel.
• Information automatically extracted and interpreted in seconds.
• Issue detected.
• Alerts triggered.
• Lots are automatically blocked in your ERP.
• Supplier is emailed.
• Supplier doesn’t respond immediately.
• Supplier is called.
• Etc., etc.
• Supplier is pinged.
• Supplier logs into the supplier portal and collaborates to resolve the issue.
Recordkeeping and resolution are haphazard.
• Problem with viscosity is spotted after numerous manual inputs and checks.
• Problem with viscosity is flagged immediately.
• Team is reminded to implement preventive measures.
• A pattern of past adjustments indicates that the ‘recipe’ must be altered.
• 1 month later, there’s a second reminder to evaluate the stability of the revised formulation and its first time right score.
Push forward against push back
If you’re driving change, expect pushback. Challenge these myths and turn skeptics into allies.
Myth 1:
“Going paperless is just about digitizing documents.”Reality: Going paperless is about gaining operational intelligence and control.
Myth 2:
“Going paperless is just about replacing Excel—and our spreadsheets work fine.”Reality: Excel-based processes limit automation, traceability, standardization and scalability.
Myth 3:
Reality: Compliance is a natural consequence of digitalization—not the whole story.
“Going paperless is about compliance.”Myth 4:
Reality: AlisQI’s affordable no-code platform eliminates IT dependency.
“Digital solutions are too expensive and complex for us.”Myth 5:
Reality check: You can easily capture your unique operational reality with AlisQI.
“We’re too special for a standard solution.”
Build your capabilities your way
Forget bloated, opaque ‘solutions’. With AlisQI you get solvers that solve real issues - fast.
Begin with a few key processes. Add capabilities when you’re ready. And end with transformative results that extend well beyond quality processes and the quality department.