The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) developed one of the most effective preferred vendor and supply chain quality management systems in the food industry for the purchase of ground beef for the National School Lunch Program. The AMS has incorporated best practices from other industries and merged in the need to guarantee food safety to produce a world class system. This presentation tells the story of how Northwest Analytical evangelized the application of its SPC software and the practice of process management to enable this NSLP success.