Manage the full 5-phase APQP process with joint gate reviews — from programme planning through production launch.
The Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process is the foundation of automotive supplier qualification. Managing it across email, shared drives, and spreadsheets results in missed deliverables, gate review delays, and lost audit trails. Proconomy's APQP module brings all 5 phases, 23 deliverables, and gate reviews into one structured platform — with joint supplier and OEM sign-off, full audit trail, and automatic PPAP creation when Phase 4 is approved.
Every step is designed to eliminate manual effort, reduce errors, and give your team real-time visibility at every stage of the process.
Create APQP record linked to supplier, part, and customer programme. Set target dates per phase gate.
Each phase has mandatory and optional deliverables (DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plan, Process Flow, MSA, Appearance Approval). Supplier uploads documents per deliverable.
Supplier marks all deliverables complete, gate moves to Gate Review status. Cummins/OEM SQE is notified.
SQE reviews deliverables and approves, approves with conditions, or rejects with comments. Both supplier and customer signatures recorded with timestamp.
AI summarises deliverable completeness and flags any missing or low-quality documents before the SQE review.
Phase 4 gate approval automatically creates a linked PPAP record pre-populated with the APQP record data.
Proconomy gives every stakeholder the right view, the right tools, and the right level of access — so no one is a bottleneck and nothing falls through the cracks.
These are not theoretical benefits — they are outcomes that procurement teams experience within the first quarter of deploying this workflow on Proconomy.
All parties see the same gate status, deliverable progress, and review decisions — no phone calls, no email chains, no "which version is current?"
Every gate decision, condition, and rejection comment is permanently recorded with timestamp and approver identity — instant audit response.
PPAP records auto-created from Phase 4 approval — supplier, part, and programme data inherited, zero re-keying, full APQP-to-PPAP traceability.
Structured gate dates and SQE worklist alerts ensure gate reviews happen on schedule — protecting the programme timeline from silent delays.
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