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- Aerospace and Defense QMS
- Who it's for
- Supplier quality review
Supplier quality review
Supplier quality work can begin with an incoming inspection and continue into an audit when the team needs to examine a wider scope. The inspection records the subject and characteristic results. Material trace links retain part serial, heat number, supplier certificate and process certificate with the person who verified them. An audit has its own scope, auditor and requirement-linked findings.
How Aerospace and Defense QMS is set up for you
Incoming inspection
Inspector records checks and their attachments against the part or assembly under review.
Trace review
The verifying person records the serial, heat and certificate attachments for the material entry.
Supplier audit
Auditor records scope-linked findings with requirement, severity, owner and due date.
Quality follow-up
Quality Manager reads open findings and nonconformances as separate queues with their source context.
Supplier quality work can begin with an incoming inspection and continue into an audit when the team needs to examine a wider scope. The inspection records the subject and characteristic results. Material trace links retain part serial, heat number, supplier certificate and process certificate with the person who verified them. An audit has its own scope, auditor and requirement-linked findings.
Pick a supplied part with a known serial and heat. Create an incoming inspection, record characteristic results and retain an attachment on the check that needs it. Add a material trace link with the available certificate files and name the verifier. Ask a second person to find the inspection result and the trace entry from the identifiers alone. This tests whether the team's naming convention will work when many similar parts arrive.
Then plan a supplier audit with one clear scope and assigned auditor. Add a finding tied to a requirement, severity, owner and due date. Move the audit to reporting and confirm that its scope is checked against the findings before closure. An audit can close while its finding still needs follow-up; read the open findings list for that separate obligation. [Audit reporting](/qms-for-aerospace-and-defense/processes/audit-reporting) sets out the rehearsal.
Features to start with
Inspection disposition
Review linked checks, accept inspected scope or raise a nonconformance for rejected work.
Corrective actions
Keep root cause, approved action, owner and effectiveness review attached to a nonconformance.
Trace evidence
Keep first article characteristics and material certificate references close to quality decisions.
Roles on the team
- Quality Manager
- Owns quality setup, planning and assigned operational work.
- Inspector
- Captures assigned quality work and evidence.
- Quality Approver
- Reviews evidence and authorizes eligible domain outcomes.
- Auditor
- Reviews assigned audit scope, findings, and reporting before closure.
Set up Aerospace and Defense QMS your way.
Start free, then use Proto to change fields, steps and approvals before your team goes live.