The APQP system handles the planning phase of new jobs by tracking a set of tasks, grouped into departmental responsibilities, which must be completed before a job is ready for production, and shipping can begin. Task due dates can be specified relative to the job issued date, or PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) date.

The APQP system enhances co-operation between departments by allowing tasks to be linked. This allows the quality department, for instance, to track the status of task in the engineering department. Users are able to add an unlimited number of comments and/or attachments to each job task, as well as sending email reminders about a particular task to one or more members of the APQP group.

The system includes a user-defined query to allow any user to view only a specific set of tasks – a ‘to-do’ screen.

Features Include:

• Support for PPAP dates and quantities
• Tracking of revisions against jobs
• Emailing reminders directly from a task
• Tasks organized by department
• Tasks due dates are relative to either PPAP or Job Issued date
• Full audit on task changes
• Unlimited user comments and attachments against a task
• Full integration with ERP system to eliminate data duplication
• To-do list of tasks with user-defined queries
• Adding pictures and external documents (eg: CAD drawings) to jobs