RFQ out for the seal housing, three suppliers.
SPC-310 Rev C attached · quotes due Friday
Solutions · Procurement & Sourcing
The award went to the lowest price.The rework came with it.
Award rationale, bid criteria and alternate-qualification calls live in email and spreadsheets, so sourcing sees unit price and never the cost of quality. Unifize keeps the evaluation, the evidence and the award on one record quality can read.
RFQ issued with the current spec
Runs wherever a supplier choice is audited
Every supplier choice, with its reasons.
The sourcing work procurement, quality and engineering run together, as governed decisions: the criteria, the evidence and who agreed, next to the supplier they chose.
Choosing the supplier
Selection, qualification and the alternate you need before you need it.
- Supplier Selection and Qualification
- Emergency Supplier Authorization and Alternate Source Qualification
- Supplier Quality Management
Specifying and approving the part
The spec the supplier builds to, and the proof the first parts meet it.
- Raw Material and Component Specification Management
- New Part Approval and First Article Inspection
- Inbound Inspection and Quarantine
Ordering
Purchase orders released to suppliers in good standing, and every change agreed.
- Purchase Order Approval and Release
- Purchase Order Change Management
- Shortage and Expedite Management
The award looked cheaper. The cost arrived later.
The failure modes we see inside procurement and sourcing. None of them is a missing feature. All of them are supplier decisions made without the quality record in view.
- Sourcing decisions optimise unit price without total quality costPrice is on the sheet. Rework, SCARs and scrap are not.
- Supplier requalification cadence drifts without triggerThe list says current. Nobody has reassessed in three years.
- Sourcing scorecard refresh stalls without owner accountabilityThe scorecard becomes history, not a current view.
A supplier chosen on price, paid for in SCARs. That hidden cost is the coordination tax.
Measure your coordination tax →Award on the whole record, not the unit price.
Most procurement tools record the PO. Unifize holds the award decision itself: the bids next to each supplier's quality history, the cross-functional review and the approver, so the next buyer can see why.
The supplier's whole record, behind every award.
The supplier's quality history, the spec it builds to and the proof its first parts meet it, on the same record as the award.
- Explore the product →
Quality Management System
Qualification, corrective actions and scorecards: the quality history every award should weigh.
- Explore the product →
Product Lifecycle Management
The specification the supplier quotes against and builds to.
- Explore the product →
Manufacturing Execution System
First article inspection that gates the new supplier's parts into production.
It sits beside the systems you already run.
Keep the ERP that holds purchase orders, prices and vendor master data. The evaluation, the award and the supplier's quality record run on Unifize, approved with a named signature.
Proof, to the standard you'd hold us to.
A signed baseline, plus the teams who run their supplier and specification work on Unifize, in their own words.
- Customer-attested · medical devices41%lower non-conformance coordination cost, measured in year oneMedical-device manufacturer$81,350 a year recovered against a signed $198,150 baselineSigned baseline, anonymized
Biovation LabsJesse Kolstad, Director of Quality16 ingredient SKUs cut to two, about $50,000 to $60,000 saved
Mikala HukkaNutritional SupplementsA material approved once is reused by the sister company
Harmonic BionicsDenis MachokaSupplier and qualification gaps visible as they happen
Harmonic BionicsMichael Hogan, Mechanical EngineerPurchasing can pull any earlier part revision on demand
Carol WilsonConstructionCerts now on the PO, after a six-week, five-person hunt
When a supplier choice comes due.
Each of these starts a clock, and each routes into a governed decision, so the sourcing call is made on the record it will be judged by.
Lost bid
Routes to Supplier Quality · owned by Sales · Quality · Engineering · Operations
Alternate supplier qualification delay
Routes to Supplier Quality · owned by Procurement · Supplier Quality · Engineering
Quality agreement negotiation bottleneck
Routes to Supplier Quality · owned by Quality · Procurement · Legal
Award it. Keep the reason.
Bring one real award, a stalled alternate qualification or a quality agreement stuck in negotiation, and see it run on your own work in a 30-minute walkthrough.