Audits

Module Overview

The Audits module supports customizable supplier audits, assessments, and other audit-like processes.

It can support multiple audit types in parallel, including on-site audits, remote audits, supplier self-assessments, self-audits, new supplier audits, new program audits, and annual audits.

Supplier audits often involve many moving pieces: scheduling, supplier preparation, evidence collection, checklists, findings, corrective actions, follow-up, verification, and reporting. Supplios helps turn those steps into a structured workflow that internal teams and suppliers can follow together.

Audits can also connect to the broader supplier lifecycle, including suppliers, programs, audit types, findings, corrective actions, supplier status, scorecards, compliance, claims, onboarding, and other Supplios workflows.

Target Users and Use Cases

Audits is for teams that need supplier audits, assessments, and corrective actions to be easier to run, track, and close out.

Primary users include:

• Supplier quality and supplier audit teams.
• Supplier development teams.
• Compliance teams running self-assessments or audit-like supplier reviews.

Common use cases include on-site audits, remote audits, supplier self-assessments, recurring audit programs, pre-audit tasks, checklists, findings, corrective actions, evidence uploads, and supplier status updates.

Features and Capabilities

Audit capabilities can be configured around the customer's audit methodology and supplier management process.

Capabilities can include:

• Customizable audit and assessment forms.
• Interactive audit checklists.
• Consistent supplier instructions.
• Supplier uploads and evidence collection.
• Built-in scoring.
• Supplier pre-audit tasks.
• Notifications and reminders.
• Audit findings tracked as individual tasks.
• Corrective actions tracked through supplier closure and internal verification.
• Search and filtering by supplier, audit type, status, finding, program, plant, or other configured criteria.
• Live reporting and scheduled reports.
• Integration of audit data into Supplier Scorecards.
• Automatic updates to supplier status when configured.

Because audits are often company-specific, the module is implemented as a custom workflow rather than a one-size-fits-all template.

Benefits and ROI

Audits ROI usually comes from less manual coordination, faster finding closure, stronger traceability, and better supplier risk visibility.

Typical benefit categories include:

• Less time planning audits and coordinating supplier participation.
• Less manual note-taking, checklist management, and report building.
• Less time chasing suppliers for corrective action closure and evidence.
• Better visibility into open findings, overdue actions, and supplier risk.
• Better traceability for audit history, approvals, findings, and corrective actions.
• Easier reporting for management, customers, compliance reviews, and supplier development meetings.
• Better inputs into supplier scorecards and supplier improvement plans.

Supplios helps audit teams make the audit process more repeatable, more visible, and easier to follow through to closure.

How Implementation Works

• Customer inputs: Audit checklists, self-assessment questionnaires, scoring models, finding categories, audit report templates, schedules, supplier rules, corrective action requirements, and integration/reporting needs.
• Supplios setup: Configure audit workflows, supplier tasks, auditor tasks, evidence uploads, findings, corrective actions, approvals, reporting, and sample-test scenarios.
• Typical timeline: Focused self-assessment or simple audit workflows are often 2-4 weeks; custom audit programs with multiple audit types, scoring, reporting, or integrations are typically 4-8 weeks.

Pricing Structure

Audits is part of the supplier quality-related module family. Anyone who owns or manages an audit workflow must be a Full User at the account level. No additional Power User fees apply.

There is no Standard Tier available for Audits at this time.

Additional notes:

• Each audit workflow must be owned by at least one Full User.
• Any internal user, Full User or Collaborator, can participate in a workflow if assigned.
• Customization fees depend on scope and complexity and are quoted on a per-project basis.