Four jobs, done in one place.
Every screen on this page is the portal as it is. On a demo we walk them with your own supplier problem and your own supplier names.
Today it runs on email and memory.
The schedule is a PDF. The concern is in an email. The 8D is a Word file.
- Nobody knows which suppliers have confirmed next month's firm orders
- 8Ds are chased by email; the late ones surface at the customer audit
- PPAP packs live in shared drives with three versions of each drawing
- PPM and cost of quality are rebuilt in a spreadsheet every month, and never agree
- The figures are compiled the day before the management meeting, so the action plan is asked for before anyone has seen the trend
- The month before the audit goes on filing, with people drafted in to help
- A supplier with three ledger accounts is three suppliers in every report
One record per supplier, one page per question, one login for them.
- Supplier Overview shows every supplier's firm confirmed %, proposals and overdue lines at a glance
- Suppliers fill in the 8D in the portal against a clock; reminders and escalations go out on their own
- PSW status grid shows exactly which document is missing for which part
- PPM and cost of quality on the report are the same figures as on the dashboard, so they always agree
- The trend is on the dashboard every morning, so the meeting starts at the action plan
- Evidence is filed as the work is done; the month before the audit goes on suppliers
- A supplier with three account codes is one supplier in the portal, with one history
Four things your team does every week.
From the line to a closed 8D.
A quality engineer raises the concern where the part is, with a photo from their phone. The supplier is told at once and answers in the 8D form, one tab per discipline, each step with its own due date. Containment first, because that is the one that protects your line. The status board shows who is late, and the reminders go out on their own. Your team spends its time on the improvement, not on writing emails and filing.
- Every step on a clock: D3 containment, root cause, corrective actions and closure, with the days set by you
- 8D training built into the form: a supplier who has never done one learns the method while doing it, and gets the value
- Combined actions: every action every supplier has promised, with owner and due date, on one page
- Fishbone and 5-why in D4; the whole 8D prints as one pack for the auditor
- Charges costed against your standard rates, on the supplier’s own Charges page
The due days are the defaults; change them in Settings. Dates on the 8D Status board go amber as they approach and red when they pass; reminder emails go out when a step is late and escalate the longer it waits.
Your schedule, in front of every supplier.
Every supplier sees their order book the way you plan it: by day, by week, by period, in bands set to your own cadence and varied by supplier where one runs differently. They confirm each line, or propose a date, a quantity and a reason. You see the answer on every line, and Supplier Overview shows who has confirmed next month and who has not. When the schedule moves, both sides see what moved: the part carries the net change, and opens to show, column by column, what it was and what it is now.
- Supplier Overview: firm orders confirmed, changes proposed and overdue lines for every supplier, by plant
- Order confirmations with proposed dates, quantities and reasons
- Advance Shipping Notices with delivery time slots
- Orders arriving for a supplier nobody has invited are flagged
- What changed since last week, or since any day you pick: every feed is kept, so the schedule as it stood is one click away
- Firm, planned and forecast as your own planners mark them in the ERP
- A day is a day: the columns follow your working week, weekends included if you work them
| Part | Arrears | Mon 14 | Wed 16 | Wk 39 | Oct | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By day, by week, by period: bands set to your own planning cadence | |||||||||
| LN-01037-1+550 Bracket, rear, LH | 250 | 400 | 400 | 1,600 | 6,400 | ||||
| Changed since Mon 7 | was 250 +150 | was 0 +400 | |||||||
| LN-02184-2 Tube assembly 32 mm | 120 | 120 | 600 | 2,400 | |||||
| LN-04961-1 Clip, spring steel | 2,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 40,000 | |||||
Part approval that shows what is missing.
Submission requirements per level, part numbers and drawings uploaded in bulk, and a status grid with one cell per document per part. Suppliers answer in place; you review in place.
- Projects, part numbers, drawings and specifications
- Drawings and specs uploaded in bulk: drop the files, the part numbers are read from the filenames
- Part numbers pasted straight from Excel
- Submission levels 1 to 5, with the documents each one needs
| Part | PSW | Drawing | Control plan | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LN-01037-1 | In review | |||
| LN-01037-2 | Approved | |||
| LN-02184-2 | Missing 3 | |||
| LN-04961-1 | In review |
Numbers that agree with each other.
PPM and incidents by month, plant and supplier. Cost of quality by supplier and by part, in each plant's currency. The dashboard, the report and the list all agree, because they are the same figures.
- Dashboard: supply base performance, trends, flow, needs attention
- Scorecards and ratings, certification expiry report
- AI Brief: every fortnight, a written brief on what got better, what got worse, what an auditor would notice, and a short list of actions with an owner and a date
The supply base, the map, the phone.
On the shop floor: raise a concern with photos from the camera, search a part, see what needs attention.
At the desk, scan the QR code on a concern and the photos come straight from the phone. No login, no cable.
One supply base on one screen.
Organise the work by supplier and category, not by plant.
Because the whole supply base is on one screen, you do not need one of everything at every site. Organise the work the way your business runs rather than the way the plants are laid out: one supplier analyst looking after metal stampings for all four plants, one buyer covering China and India, one quality engineer chasing every open 8D wherever the part was rejected. Each of them sets their own view, by site, category or country, and sees just their patch; one click widens it to everything.
It is also cover. When someone is on holiday or off sick, a colleague at another site picks up their view and carries on with the same list, the same reports and the same suppliers, and hands it back when they return. Nothing waits for the one person who knew where the spreadsheet was.
It runs on a clock.
Not on somebody remembering.
ERP feed
Orders, deliveries and supplier details arrive from your ERP. Nothing is keyed by hand, a page shows every run and what it brought in, and each schedule is kept so you can see what changed.
Reminders and escalations
Suppliers with an 8D due or an order unconfirmed are told. Late ones escalate to the people you name.
Supply base review email
Subscribers get the week's concerns, 8Ds and orders in one email, with the AI Brief for the meeting.
PPM, cost of quality, scorecards
Ratings recalculate, certificates near expiry are flagged, and the figures for the management meeting are on the dashboard on the first of the month, not the night before.
See it with your own supply base.
A demo takes forty minutes. Bring a real supplier problem and we will walk it from the concern to the closed 8D, and show you the order book as your suppliers would see it.