Lot 4471 failed incoming. Plating thickness out of spec on 3 of 20 samples.
Receipt R-8874 · Apex Metals · PO-2211
Solutions · Supplier Management
You qualified the supplier.A year on, nobody can prove it.
Qualification, part approval, incoming disposition and supplier corrective action all close across an org boundary. Unifize keeps the decision on the record, on both sides of it.
Incoming lot fails inspection
Runs wherever the supply base is regulated
If it crosses the supplier boundary, it has a home here.
The supplier work you already run, as governed workflows: named owners on both sides, evidence attached where the decision happens. Start with one; they link as you grow.
Bringing a supplier on
Everything between a shortlist and a supplier you are allowed to buy from.
- Supplier selection and qualification
- Supplier quality management
- Emergency authorisation and alternate sourcing
Proving the part
The evidence that says this component can be made to spec, at volume, by this supplier.
- PPAP and APQP
- New part approval and first article inspection
- Raw material and component specifications
At the receiving dock
What happens between the truck arriving and the lot being available to production.
- Inbound inspection and quarantine
- Non-conformance and disposition
When the supplier is the root cause
The loop that has to change behaviour at another company, not just collect a document.
- Supplier corrective action and SCAR
- Contract manufacturing and CMO governance
The work crosses over. The record stays behind.
The failure modes we see across the supplier boundary. Every one of them is a decision that landed in somebody's inbox, on one side of the relationship or the other.
- Lot genealogy breaks at the supplier handoffYour genealogy holds. The supplier's half is rebuilt by hand.
- Supplier change notifications drop between supplier, sourcing and qualitySourcing heard. Quality heard weeks later, from the parts.
- SCAR loops close on paperwork, not on behaviourClosed on the 8D. The defect is back two months later.
- Qualification evidence cannot be reconstructed at requalificationThe qualification folder left with the people who built it.
The supplier side, rebuilt by hand mid-recall. That rebuild is the coordination tax.
Measure your coordination tax →Run the SCAR where both companies can see it.
Most systems track a supplier corrective action as a status field. Unifize holds the investigation across the boundary, so the requirement, the supplier's root cause and the verification at re-inspection seal into one trace.
Receipt to supplier fix, on one record.
Supplier corrective action and qualification run in the Quality Management System, specifications and their changes in the Document Management System, and receiving inspection and lot records in the Manufacturing Execution System.
- Explore the product →
Quality Management System
The supplier backbone: qualification, incoming alignment, corrective action and the scorecard on one governed record.
- Explore the product →
Document Management System
Specifications, quality agreements and change: authored once, distributed to the supplier, acknowledged on the record.
- Explore the product →
Manufacturing Execution System
The receiving and traceability leg: inspection at the dock, lot genealogy that survives the supplier handoff.
Your stack stays. The supplier joins the record.
Purchase orders stay in the ERP, specifications in the PLM, lot records in the MES. Unifize runs the work that crosses to the supplier, and only the approved outcome goes back, with a 21 CFR Part 11 signature.
Proof, to the standard you'd hold us to.
A signed baseline, not a brochure stat, plus named teams running this work on Unifize.
- 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
ApplechemWilson LinRaw material and vendor validation, approvals built in
Biovation LabsJesse Kolstad, Director of QualitySupplier scorecards run as a food-safety preventive control
Harmonic BionicsMichael Hogan, Mechanical EngineerPurchasing sends vendors the released print, every time
Harmonic BionicsClarissa ArcherCerts, PO and inspection kept on every incoming lot
Biovation LabsJesse Kolstad, Director of QualityTest results trended by ingredient and supplier
Harmonic BionicsClarissa ArcherOut-of-spec trends became the evidence for a SCAR
ApplechemWilson LinVendors and contract makers join the investigation directly
When the supply base becomes the emergency.
Each of these starts a clock on the far side of an org boundary, and each routes into a governed workflow so the response is coordinated on the record it will be judged by.
Supplier-caused line stop
Routes to Supplier Quality · Non-conformance · owned by Supplier Quality Director · Procurement
Incoming inspection backlog
Routes to Supplier Quality · Inspections · owned by Supplier Quality Manager · Materials
Supplier capacity crisis
Routes to Supplier Quality · owned by CPO · VP Supply Chain
Cross the boundary. Keep the record.
Bring one supplier problem, a corrective action backlog, an inspection queue or a qualification package, and see the decision trace on your own work in a 30-minute walkthrough.