QPR Integrated Management System promoted Bosch to win the EFQM Excellence Award “Management by Processes and Facts” special pri

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Bosch Bursa drives its Quality Management with a dynamic Performance Measurement System based on QPR’s performance management software. The work is awarded by the European Foundation for Quality Management, EFQM Excellence Award and prizes in the Management by Processes and Facts and Partnership Development categories. QPR system has made executing corrective actions faster and increased the efficiency of the company wide management of performance measures and quality related documents.

Today one third of all passenger cars running on Diesel Systems are using Common Rail Injectors produced in Bosch Bursa plant in Turkey. With the implementation of QPR ScoreCard at the beginning of 2008, an integrated management system was created in Bosch Bursa plant to monitor and control performance at once by linking parameters from process to functional controlling. The system has replaced the previously used environment of non-linked parameters which was based on Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel. Hence, efforts for data collection, presentation, formatting and distribution were reduced by 60%.

“We are delighted with our customer’s success in the prestigious EFQM Award competition. It is an excellent example of how our products can help customers to meet the EFQM goals of promoting and supporting the implementation of Sustainable Excellence“, says Antti Ainasoja, Vice President for Software Sales International at QPR Software Plc.

Introducing QPR ScoreCard to Bosch Bursa has made executing corrective actions faster. In addition it has helped to increase the efficiency of the company wide management of parameters by making a large number of different documents obsolete. At the same time various isolated parameter tracking environments running parallel in the company were integrated.

Implementation of QPR’s performance management software, QPR ScoreCard, was executed and assisted by QPR’s German partner, PROTEMA Unternehmensberatung GmbH.

“The Bosch Bursa case shows how well QPR ScoreCard suits in the demanding quality needs of high-tech manufacturing industry. Implementation of QPR ScoreCard was easy and fast as the software allowed us to easily create the needed hierarchies, KPI settings and aggregations. The QPR software had a material role for us to combine the classical functional oriented view to the organization with the process oriented approach to run business”, says Christoph Vetter, QPR Project Leader of PROTEMA.

With the introduction of QPR, Bosch Bursa has now linked its strategies, processes and results to achieve the highest standards of production. Nevertheless Bosch Bursa seeks to exploit more benefits. As a further step, the application of QPR is expanded by integrating Key Performance Indexes and Individual Success
Evaluation (ISE) parameters to the system.

Read the Bosch Bursa Success Story on QPR Software’s web site at:http://www.qpr.com/customers.html

The EFQM Excellence Award

EFQM’s membership base of 600 organizations actively exchanges experience on issues ranging from quality and risk management, to leadership and supplier development programs.

The EFQM Excellence Award is Europe’s most prestigious award for organizations: the highest form of recognition an organization could receive, discerned from among its own peers. The Award recognizes industry leaders with an indisputable track record of success in turning strategy into action and continuously improving their organization's performance.

Top executives from leading businesses and public service organizations study and visit the candidates, and after extensive examination select the few outstanding achievers. Previous Award winners include e.g. BMW, Bosch, Grundfos, Nokia, TNT Express and Volvo.

Exceptional performance in a specific area or subject is rewarded with a prize. If a true role model is identified, or if an organization clearly stands out from all the others as an example to learn from and to aspire to, they receive the ultimate recognition, the Excellence Award (more atwww.efqm.com). The Bosch Bursa Plant has received the EFQM Excellence Award twice, in 2003 and 2008.

Read the EFQM award presentation on Bosch Bursa: http://ww1.efqm.org/en/Portals/0/Bosch[1].pdf

About Bosch Group and Bosch in Turkey

Founded in 1886 Bosch Group is an international leading technology and service company with more than 300 subsidiaries in over 150 countries and its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. With 282,000 employees worldwide and a turnover of 45 billion Euro in 2008 it is one of the world’s most successful manufacturers of automotive, industrial, consumer goods and building technology. The biggest business sector with 59% of total sales in 2008 is Bosch’s Automotive Technology.

In Turkey the Bosch Group is one of the biggest multinational industrial employers with a total work force of more than 8,000 associates. The Bosch Bursa Plant, Bosch Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (RBTR), was the first of today seven companies of Robert Bosch GmbH in Turkey. In addition to receiving the EFQM Excellence Awards in 2003 and 2008, the plant is the winner of the 2007 Turkey Sustainable Excellence Award.

About QPR Software

QPR Software Plc is an international, highly regarded partner for enterprises and public sector in process development and business performance improvement. QPR’s mission is to help people and organizations to take control of their business processes and achieve their goals. QPR software has been implemented in more than 1,500 organizations across the globe and is provided in more than 20 languages. QPR was founded in 1991, has its headquarters in Helsinki, Finland and co-operates with an extensive network of talented partners in over 50 countries worldwide. QPR Software's share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd (ticker: QPR1V), www.qpr.com.

QPR– Quality. Processes. Results.

For more information, please contact:

QPR Software Plc:
Antti Ainasoja, Vice President, Software Sales International
Tel. +358 (0) 400 692 344
antti.ainasoja(at)qpr.com

PROTEMA Unternehmensberatung GmbH:
Michael Mezger
Tel. +49-711-900 15 - 75
mezger(at)protema.de

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