APQP/PPAP: View Supplier Items
The "APQP/PPAP View Supplier List" page for items shows all APQP items created by your company for a supplier, as well as APQP items created on your company's behalf by a supplier. Clicking a row on the table causes its corresponding record to open.
The search field in the top-right of the table can be used to filter the report by part number, item name, supplier, and customer. There are also icons at the top of each column that allow a user to select or provide an entry to filter by.
Export: Generates an Excel file with the current contents of the APQP/PPAP table
Columns: Used to add or remove columns from the APQP/PPAP table.
Adding to Favorites: You can save a favorite of a list page with all column selections and enabled filters.
Columns
All columns are derived from fields on the record's related APQP/PPAP forms or checklist item specifics. A few columns of interest are highlighted below:
Item Type: Filter items based on whether they are elements, events, phases, or a custom item type
Approver Assignee(s): If any user(s), department(s), or workcenter(s) are assigned to an item, those will populate in this column
Submitter Assignee(s): If any user(s), department(s), or workcenter(s) are assigned to an item, those will populate in this column
Has Required Predecessors?: Indicates if other items must be completed prior to this item's submission
Phase Alignment: If any items are aligned to a phase, a mini-report can be generated from this table to track phase progression
PPAP: Indicates if an item is specifically PPAP or falls under the umbrella of APQP only
Item Status:
In-Work: Item is not one of the other statuses
Pending Buy-Off: Item is awaiting customer review
Disapproved: Item was disapproved by the customer/approver and is now awaiting resubmission by the supplier/submitter
Accepted: Item was accepted by the customer/approver
Item Schedule Status: The schedule status of an APQP/PPAP item, based on the item's due date
Not Scheduled: Item does not have a due date
Scheduled: Item has a due date
Coming Due: Today's date is within the terms of coming due as set by the customer configuration
Past Due: Today's date is greater than the due date of the package or the item's due date
Completed: Item's status is accepted
Has Concerns: While signing for an Element on an APQP form, the Supplier/submitter may be asked to complete a questionnaire with multiple possible answers. Certain answers, when selected, may indicate the Supplier/submitter has issues or concerns with the element that need to be addressed.
"Yes" will appear in this column if an answer indicating such concerns is selected on any questionnaire. "No" will appear if no concerns were shown by the Supplier/submitter after answering an item's questionnaire. If an item does not have a questionnaire, the column will remain blank.
Opening an APQP record
Only users that have the appropriate Program and Division authorization (where applicable) and access to at least the "View Only" APQP Role can open and make changes to a record.
Program authorization: Supplier users must have access to the Program assigned to an APQP package in order to open it. Therefore, customer users creating or editing an APQP package should take care to select a program to which supplier users are likely to have access.
Customer users may require access to either the APQP package's assigned Program, or one of the Programs assigned to the Part Number's record.
Division authorization: As a supplier, if a "From Division" is available on your company's APQP package, then supplier users will need to be aligned with the division in order to open a package. Access to the record's "To Division" is not required.
Customer users may require access to the APQP package's assigned To Division, and/or to one of the Divisions assigned to the Part Number's record. Therefore, supplier users creating or editing an APQP package should take care to select an appropriate To Division, normally one that corresponds with the purchase order.