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Qualprom – Quality & Productivity Management is a consulting firm engaged to supporting automotive organizations in aligning their operations with OEM requirements and critical industry standards.
Through strategic advisory, executive coaching, and hands-on operational guidance, Qualprom helps organizations to achieve compliance, improve operational performance, and prepare for critical audits.
Javier Couto, the firm’s Founder and Director, brings more than 35 years of experience working with OEMs and global automotive suppliers, supporting organizations in achieving sustainable operational excellence.
Working with OEMs and global automotive suppliers
Javier Couto
Founder & Director – Qualprom
Strategic Advisor and Executive Coach supporting automotive organizations in achieving OEM compliance, operational alignment, and audit readiness.
With more than 35 years of experience in the global automotive industry, Javier has worked with OEMs and international suppliers helping organizations strengthen operational performance and align with critical industry standards.
Experience translated into operation
Throughout his career, Javier Couto has collaborated with global OEMs and automotive providers, participating in initiatives related with operational alignment, quality management systems, provider development and industry standard implementation.
Javier Couto’s experience is not limited to advising, he has built himself by personally working at the operation, facing actual compliance and audit challenges in demanding industrial environments.
Such view allows him to understand, in depth, OEMs’ expectations and challenges facing organizations to maintain a stable, aligned sustainable operation.
Pertinent Experience
With more than three decades in the global automotive and manufacturing industries, Javier has collaborated with global OEMs and leading suppliers at different levels. (logos)
His experience spans a wide range of domestic and international organizations at different levels of operational maturity that allow him to adapt to each context and direct efforts on critical items actually impacting performance.
Areas of Expertise
Javier Couto supports automotive organizations in an operation’s key aspects to ensure compliance, alignment and sustainable results:
- OEM Compliance and Supplier Development
- Quality Management Systems
- Operational Alignment and Performance Improvement
- Executive Coaching for Operational Leadership
- Audit Readiness and Certification Preparation
- Implementation of Industry Standards
Standards and Frameworks
Javier Couto has broad experience supporting organizations in implementing and aligning with key international standards and frameworks, including:
IATF 16949
ISO 9001
ISO 14001
ISO 45001
VDA Standards
Core Tools (APQP, PPAP, FMEA, SPC, MSA)
Special CQI Processes
OEM Specific Requirements
Leadership Philosophy
Javier believes that more than implementing standards achieving operational excellence requires alignment between leadership, processes, and day-to-day operational execution.
Through strategic advisory and executive coaching, he personally works with teams in strengthening their leadership capability while building sustainable operational systems aligned with OEM expectations.
Javier working foundation is the operation’s reality helping organizations to close the gap between what is required and the day-to-day reality.
With a clear objective to produce sustainable results, strengthen the operation and protect relationships between organizations with their respective OEM customers.