Supplier quality software

Supplier Quality Software for Incoming and Sub-Tier Control

Your customer holds you responsible for what your suppliers send. Supplier quality is the same discipline you already apply to yourself, pointed one tier upstream — and it is the module we are building next.

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On the roadmap

Not in the product today

Supplier quality is the next module, not a current one. The screens described below are planned work, and none of them is available in the platform today. What the product does do now is the customer side of the same discipline: requirement profiles, incoming characteristics on a control plan, and your own submissions.

There is no screenshot here because there is no screen yet. Everything else on this site shows the application as it actually is.

The problem

A certificate in an inbox is not incoming control.

Material and plating certificates arrive by email and land in a folder named after the month. When a customer asks which heat number went into the parts they were shipped, the answer is an afternoon of searching — and sometimes it is not there at all.

The same is true of supplier PPAP. Asking a supplier for a submission and holding what comes back against the part they supply, rather than against an email thread, is what makes their approval state something you can state rather than remember.

That is the problem the module below is being built to answer. It is described in the future tense throughout, because that is the tense it is currently in.

Incoming inspection

Planned: results against the specification for the bought part, with the gauge that took them.

Material lots and certificates

Planned: the certificate held against the lot, and the lot against the parts it became.

Supplier PPAP

Planned: request a submission, hold the elements, and know which are outstanding.

Scorecards

Planned: acceptance rate, PPM and certificate compliance computed from records rather than typed into a review deck.

Sub-tier visibility

Planned: who supplies your supplier, where that matters to your customer.

Nonconformance to supplier

Planned: a rejection raised against a supplier keeping its link to the lot and the certificate.

Where it sits

What you can do about suppliers today.

A bought characteristic can already live on the control plan and be verified like any other, and a nonconformance can already be raised against it. What is missing is the supplier as a first-class record — the scorecard, the certificate library and the supplier submission.

  • Available now: bought characteristics on the control plan
  • Available now: inspection results against those characteristics
  • Available now: nonconformances, 8D and CAPA on what you receive
  • Available now: controlled documents and approval routes
  • Planned: suppliers, lots, certificates and scorecards
  • Planned: supplier PPAP requests and sub-tier records
FAQ

Questions about Supplier quality software

Can I use supplier quality in EasyQualityFlow today?
No. Supplier quality is a planned module and is not in the platform today. This page describes what it is being built to do. Everything else on this site describes the product as it currently is, and we would rather draw that line clearly than let a landing page imply otherwise.
What can the product do about incoming material now?
A bought characteristic can sit on a control plan and be inspected like any other, and a failure can raise a nonconformance that goes through 8D or CAPA. What does not exist yet is the supplier as a record — no scorecards, no certificate library, no supplier submissions.
Will suppliers get their own login?
That is the intention: a supplier role that sees only what belongs to that supplier. It is planned, not built.
Will it need an ERP?
No. The same rule applies to this module as to the rest of the product: suppliers, bought parts, lots and certificates will be enterable directly or importable from a spreadsheet, with an ERP connection optional.
Get started

Start with the part of the discipline that already exists.

Bring APQP, FMEA, PPAP, process flow, control plans, inspection and SPC into one connected platform.

Questions? support@easyqualityflow.com