Supplier Audit Services
Strengthen Your Supply Chain with Independent Aerospace Supplier Audits
Comprehensive Supply Chain Auditing & Vendor Oversight
Your quality management system is only as strong as the suppliers supporting it.
Apogee Quality Management Systems provides independent supplier audit services for aerospace manufacturers, distributors, and other quality-driven organizations that need greater confidence in the capability, compliance, and performance of their supply chain.
Whether you are qualifying a new supplier, evaluating an existing supplier, responding to performance concerns, or fulfilling customer and quality management system requirements, Apogee provides experienced, objective supplier assessments focused on the risks that matter most to your organization.
Aerospace-Focused Supplier Audit Support
Supplier quality issues can quickly affect delivery, product conformity, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance. A supplier may have certifications and documented procedures in place, but those alone do not demonstrate that processes are effectively controlled.
Our supplier audits go beyond checking boxes. We evaluate how the supplier’s processes actually operate and whether the controls in place are appropriate for the products and services they provide.
Apogee can perform supplier audits against:
- AS9100
- AS9120
- ISO 9001
- Customer-specific requirements
- Company-specific supplier requirements
- Purchase order and contractual requirements
- Process-specific audit criteria
- Customized supplier qualification criteria
When Should You Conduct a Supplier Audit?
A supplier audit may be appropriate when:
- Qualifying or approving a new supplier
- Evaluating a critical or high-risk supplier
- Investigating recurring quality or delivery issues
- Responding to customer concerns
- Expanding the scope of work awarded to an existing supplier
- Evaluating supplier corrective action effectiveness
- Meeting internal supplier monitoring requirements
- Assessing a supplier that performs critical or special processes
- Reducing risk before placing significant new business
1. Audit Planning
We work with your team to define the audit objectives, scope, applicable requirements, known concerns, and areas of supplier risk.
2. Pre-Audit Review
Where appropriate, we review available supplier information such as certifications, performance history, previous findings, corrective actions, process documentation, and customer-specific requirements.
3. Supplier Audit
The audit is performed remotely or onsite depending on the scope and objectives. We evaluate relevant processes, records, personnel, controls, and objective evidence.
Areas evaluated may include:
- Quality management system effectiveness
- Contract and customer requirement review
- Document and configuration control
- Purchasing and supplier management
- Production and process controls
- Inspection and acceptance activities
- Identification and traceability
- Control of nonconforming outputs
- Corrective action
- Corrective action
- Risk management
- Competence and training
- Calibration and monitoring equipment
- Counterfeit parts prevention
- Product safety
- Foreign Object Debris prevention
- Special process controls
- Record retention
- Continual improvement
4. Audit Reporting
You receive a clear, professional audit report identifying:
- Audit scope and criteria
- Processes evaluated
- Objective evidence reviewed
- Nonconformities
- Observations or opportunities for improvement, where appropriate
- Areas of concern
- Overall assessment of supplier controls
5. Corrective Action Follow-Up
Apogee can also support review and verification of supplier corrective actions to help determine whether identified issues have been adequately addressed.
Extend Your Supplier Quality Capability Without Adding Headcount
Many aerospace organizations do not have enough internal resources to perform every supplier audit required by their quality system or customer base.
Apogee can function as an extension of your Supplier Quality or Quality Assurance team, giving you experienced audit capability when and where you need it.
We can support:
One-time supplier audits.
New supplier qualification audits.
Annual supplier audit programs.
Risk-based supplier surveillance.
Corrective action verification.
Multi-supplier audit projects.
Why Apogee?
Apogee combines aerospace quality management expertise with a practical, process-based auditing approach.
Our focus is not simply determining whether documentation exists. We evaluate whether supplier processes are effectively implemented, understood, maintained, and capable of consistently meeting requirements.
Benefits of working with Apogee include:
- Aerospace-focused quality expertise
- Independent and objective supplier assessments
- Process-based auditing
- Flexible onsite and remote options
- Professional audit reports
- Support for AS9100, AS9120, and ISO 9001 environments
- Scalable support for individual audits or ongoing supplier audit programs
Need Help Evaluating a Supplier?
Whether you need to qualify a new supplier, investigate an existing concern, or expand your supplier audit capacity, Apogee can help.
Contact Apogee Quality Management Systems to discuss your supplier audit requirements and request a quote.