Your Quality Is Only as Good as Your Worst Supplier.
FAST Supplier Quality Management Software gives you one controlled system for the entire supply base — onboarding, audits, incoming inspection, PPM-based ratings, supplier 8D/CAPA and PPAP tracking — so supplier problems get caught, corrected and prevented before they reach your line.
PPM Trends · Ratings · Open CAPAs
Everything You Need to Know Before Scrolling Further
The complete FAST SQM offering — what it controls, what it measures, and what it connects to.
Full Supplier Lifecycle
Registration, assessment, approval, audits, performance monitoring, corrective action and development — every supplier managed through one controlled lifecycle with a complete history.
Objective Performance Ratings
PPM, lot rejection rate, delivery performance, CAPA response time and audit scores rolled into periodic scorecards with A/B/C classification — calculated from real transaction data, not opinions.
Closed-Loop Issue Resolution
Every rejection and supplier-caused complaint triggers a structured 8D/CAPA request with due dates, reminders, escalation and effectiveness verification — nothing dies in an inbox.
Extend Your Quality System Beyond Your Own Four Walls
In most manufacturing operations, more than half the value of the finished product is purchased. That means more than half of your quality risk lives in processes you don't directly control. Supplier Quality Management (SQM) software is the discipline of controlling that risk systematically — through structured onboarding, objective performance measurement, risk-based audits and enforced corrective action.
FAST SQM is not a standalone vendor database. It is embedded in the same platform as incoming inspection, 8D complaint management, audits and PPAP — so supplier ratings are computed from real inspection transactions, supplier corrective actions follow the same disciplined workflow as internal CAPAs, and supplier PPAP evidence lives next to your own.
Supply Base → Incoming Quality → Your Line
The Full Supplier Quality Cycle. One Platform.
From the day a supplier is proposed to the day their performance trend earns them more business — or less — FAST SQM keeps the entire relationship measured and controlled.
Onboarding & Approved Supplier List
Structured registration with self-assessment questionnaires, required certificates and documents, evaluation workflow and formal approval — before a supplier can receive a single purchase order. Status changes (approved, conditional, blocked) are controlled and fully historied.
Incoming Inspection & PPM
Received lots are inspected against defined quality plans in the FAST inspection module. Acceptances, rejections and defect details flow automatically into supplier PPM, lot rejection rate and trend analytics — the objective backbone of every supplier rating.
Supplier Audits
Risk-based audit calendars, digital checklists for system, process and product audits, findings with objective evidence, and nonconformities that flow into tracked corrective actions with follow-up verification — executed on site or remotely.
Supplier 8D / CAPA
Rejections and supplier-caused complaints trigger structured corrective action requests with containment, root cause, corrective and preventive action stages — tracked with due dates, automatic reminders, escalation and effectiveness checks.
The Complete SQM Feature Set — Built for Manufacturing Supply Chains
FAST Supplier Quality Management provides every capability an SQA and purchasing organization needs to keep a supply base of dozens or hundreds of vendors measured, accountable and improving.
Master · Ratings · CAPA · Documents
Ratings Computed from Transactions — Not Compiled in Spreadsheets
Most supplier ratings fail for one reason: the data behind them is assembled manually, quarterly, from whatever records people can find. FAST SQM inverts that. Because incoming inspection, complaints, audits and CAPA all run in the same platform, the rating engine draws on live transaction data — every lot received, every rejection, every overdue response.
Rating criteria and weightings are configurable to your policy: incoming PPM, lot rejection rate, delivery performance, corrective action response time, audit scores. Scorecards generate on schedule, classify suppliers A/B/C, and alert both your team and the supplier when performance crosses thresholds — turning the rating from an annual report into an operating control.
Criteria Weights · A/B/C Class · Trend
Built for the Teams That Own the Supply Base
Supplier Quality (SQA) Engineers
Run audits, issue and chase corrective actions, review PPAP submissions and manage supplier documents — with the complete history of every supplier one search away.
Purchasing & Sourcing Teams
Make sourcing decisions on objective quality and delivery data, and keep commercial pressure aligned with the supplier's actual performance trend.
Incoming Quality Teams
Inspect received lots against controlled plans, with rejections automatically feeding supplier PPM, ratings and corrective action requests — no separate reporting step.
Quality & Plant Leadership
Review the health of the entire supply base on one dashboard — rating distributions, PPM trends, open issues and audit coverage — and target development where the data points.
Questions About FAST Supplier Quality Management
Common questions from SQA engineers, purchasing heads and quality leaders evaluating supplier quality management software.
Half Your Quality Risk Lives in Your Supply Base. Manage It Like It.
Manufacturers who measure suppliers with live data, enforce corrective action through workflow, and audit on risk instead of routine see the difference where it counts — incoming PPM, line stoppages and customer complaints. FAST SQM makes that discipline systematic.