Digitize Supplier Audits and Identify Risks Early
Suppliers have a direct impact on your business; they are responsible for quality, on-time delivery, and the stability of your processes. Regular supplier audits help you verify quality standards, identify risks early on, and work with suppliers to implement improvements. With cluetec Audit, you can digitize the entire audit process and create a centralized database for transparent and traceable supplier evaluation.
- Systematically review quality requirements
- Evaluate suppliers based on uniform criteria
- Identify risks and opportunities for improvement early on
- Centralized documentation of audit data and results
Centralized planning and management of all supplier audits
Different suppliers, locations, audit cycles, and responsible parties can quickly make audit planning complex. The various planning tools – such as Excel spreadsheets, emails, and calendars – often lead to additional coordination efforts or even data entry errors. With cluetec Audit, you can centrally manage suppliers, audit dates, and responsibilities. Recurring audits can be planned in a structured manner and adapted to defined audit cycles.
- Manage suppliers and locations centrally
- Schedule one-time and recurring audits
- Assign auditors and responsibilities
- Track deadlines, status, and results transparently
Evaluate suppliers consistently using digital checklists
Consistent evaluation criteria ensure comparability. With digital checklists, you can ensure that supplier audits are conducted according to defined guidelines, regardless of location or auditor. Questions, rating systems, and calculation logic can be flexibly configured in cluetec Audit. Auditors record results, comments, deviations, and photos directly during the audit—on mobile devices and, if necessary, even offline.
- Consistent evaluation criteria for all suppliers
- Create customized and multilingual checklists
- Document photos, notes, and deviations directly
- Conduct supplier audits on the go and offline
Engage suppliers and conduct self-assessments digitally
Not every evaluation has to start with an on-site audit. With cluetec Audit, you can directly involve suppliers in the audit process and, for example, have them conduct self-assessments. Suppliers are given access to the content relevant to them and can provide the requested information in a structured manner. The results are then centrally available for further evaluation and the audit process.
- Digitally integrate suppliers into the audit process
- Conducting self-assessments in a structured manner
- Record information in a centralized and traceable manner
- Preparing for on-site audits in a targeted manner
Automatically generate evaluations and audit reports
Once a supplier audit is complete, the results must be presented and communicated in a transparent manner. cluetec Audit automatically applies predefined evaluation criteria and compiles the collected information into structured audit reports. This allows you to reduce manual tasks and establish a consistent basis for evaluating your suppliers.
- Set up custom evaluation systems
- Calculate scores automatically
- Create standardized audit reports
- Document results in a transparent and traceable manner
Consistently implement actions in collaboration with suppliers
A supplier audit only creates sustainable value if identified deviations are actually corrected. With cluetec Audit, you can translate findings directly into specific actions and track their implementation centrally. Responsibilities and deadlines are clearly defined. Automatic notifications help those involved process issues in a timely manner, and a subsequent effectiveness review ensures that improvements have been implemented sustainably.
- Derive actions directly from findings
- Define responsibilities and deadlines
- Notify participants automatically
- Document the implementation and effectiveness in a transparent manner
Audit software for all supplier audits
With cluetec Audit, you can map various audit and evaluation processes within your supplier management system on a central platform. Checklists, evaluation procedures, and workflows can be flexibly adapted to your individual requirements.
- Supplier Audits (including those conducted in accordance with VDA 6.3)
- Supplier Self-Assessments
- Supplier Qualification
- Supplier Evaluations
- Supplier Process Audits
- Quality audits
Digitize Supplier Audits and Systematically Develop Suppliers
From the initial self-assessment through the on-site audit to the implementation of agreed-upon actions: With cluetec Audit, you can digitally map the entire supplier evaluation process. This creates transparency regarding suppliers, results, and actions while reducing the administrative burden on your quality and supplier management teams.
Manage suppliers centrally
Manage suppliers, locations, and related audits centrally in cluetec Audit.
Planning audit programs
Schedule one-time and recurring supplier audits and keep track of deadlines and responsibilities.
Involve suppliers
Integrate external suppliers directly into defined processes and, for example, conduct self-assessments digitally.
Evaluate consistently
Define checklists and evaluation criteria to ensure consistent and comparable supplier evaluations.
Mobile auditing
Conduct supplier audits on a tablet or smartphone—even offline and without any media breaks.
Track actions
Centrally manage actions, responsibilities, and deadlines all the way through the final effectiveness review.
Compare suppliers
Analyze audit data and compare results across suppliers, locations, and time periods.
A.I. = Audit Intelligence
Use AI-powered features to analyze audit information more quickly and efficiently summarize comprehensive audit reports.
In a digital supplier audit, the planning, execution, evaluation, and follow-up are managed using software. With cluetec Audit, you can manage suppliers and locations, schedule audits, record results on mobile devices, generate reports, and track actions centrally.
Digital supplier audits reduce manual tasks and create a centralized, traceable database. Standardized checklists and evaluation criteria improve comparability. At the same time, companies can identify risks, deviations, and opportunities for improvement at an early stage.
With cluetec Audit, companies can centrally plan one-time and recurring supplier audits. Suppliers, locations, dates, audit cycles, auditors, and responsibilities are all managed on a single platform. Status and results remain transparent at all times.
Yes. Auditors can conduct supplier audits using cluetec Audit on a tablet or smartphone—even without an internet connection, if necessary. Ratings, comments, deviations, notes, and photos are recorded digitally right during the audit.
Yes. In cluetec Audit, companies can create customized, multilingual checklists, questions, rating systems, and calculation formulas. This allows suppliers to be evaluated according to uniform criteria, regardless of their location or the auditor.
Yes. Suppliers can be directly integrated into the audit process and provide the requested information in a structured manner as part of a digital self-assessment. The results are then centrally available for supplier evaluation and to prepare for future audits.
Once a supplier audit is complete, cluetec Audit automatically applies the predefined evaluation criteria. Scores are calculated, and the collected information is compiled into standardized audit reports. This reduces manual effort and ensures transparent results.
Identified deviations can be directly translated into specific actions. Responsibilities and deadlines can be defined for each action. Automatic notifications facilitate the processing, while implementation and effectiveness checks are documented centrally.
Yes. With Embedded Analytics for cluetec Audit, you can analyze audit data across different suppliers, locations, and time periods. Custom Power BI dashboards highlight trends, recurring deviations, and opportunities for improvement.
cluetec Audit is suitable for a variety of inspection and evaluation processes in supplier management. These include supplier audits—including those conducted in accordance with VDA 6.3—supplier self-assessments, supplier qualifications, supplier evaluations, process audits at suppliers, and quality audits.