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Supplier’s Perspective of APQP
Overview
As we mentioned in Chapter 1, the principles of advanced product quality
planning (APQP) are very important from a customer’s perspective because
they assure timing, capacity, and quality characteristics being within the
necessary requirements. In this chapter, we will focus on the requirements
of APQP from the supplier’s perspective.
Traditionally, APQP has been misunderstood and taken seriously very late
in the process of launching. Suppliers do not take advantage of the posi-
tive benets that a system such as APQP can deliver and the many value-
added goals that it presents when it is viewed as a proces ...