Contract Review · part of Launch Quality

Contract Review Software Stop promising delivery dates your plant never agreed to.

Log every customer specification against the order and send it to the departments that must comment, get PPC promise dates before you confirm delivery, and plan customer and third-party inspections from the same order record.

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The basics

What is contract review in manufacturing?

Contract review in manufacturing is the check a plant makes on a customer order before committing to it: can we meet the specifications, the standards they call up, the inspection requirements and the delivery date? ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 both expect it, with a record of who reviewed what and when.

This page is about orders and parts, not legal contracts. In many plants sales books the order, the customer specification sits in an email attachment, and engineering reads it three weeks later. The delivery date went out before PPC saw the load. Then the customer's inspector arrives for a stage inspection nobody planned.

Features

A contract review process that runs on the order

Every record hangs off the sales order, so the order page shows the whole review in one card.

Customer requirements, reviewed by each department

Log each customer specification, drawing and standard against the order with its revision. Send it to the departments that must comment, with a date their comments are due.

Delivery feasibility from PPC

Raise a request per order position with the quantity and the date the customer wants. PPC answers each one with a promise date, round after round, and answered requests are locked.

Standards and what they mean to you

Keep a library of the requirements in customer and international standards, with your plant's understanding of each one, mapped to the department responsible.

Customer and third-party inspection sheets

Plan inspections at your plant or a supplier: offer quantity per line, PPC confirmation dates, inspection stages, cleared quantity, agency and post-inspection documents.

Vendor documents the customer must approve

Track each document you owe the customer, such as GA drawings, QAPs and data sheets, with promise dates, customer return codes and a comment response sheet per revision.

Order changes and free-issue material

Order change requests carry the MRP run status, one live request per order revision. Free-issue material from the customer is tracked from receipt to dispatch, so nothing is left at the plant.

Connected

Contract Review doesn't live alone

Contract review sits on the same sales order as the rest of the sales flow. For a new part, start an APQP project from that quote or order, and its plan carries the team feasibility commitment and design for manufacturability deliverables with sign-off.

Standards and industries

Contract review and manufacturing feasibility analysis by industry

IndustryStandardWhat you get
All manufacturersISO 9001Review of customer requirements before you accept an order, and when the order changes
AutomotiveIATF 16949Customer-specific requirements, manufacturing feasibility and team feasibility commitment through APQP
Valves, pumps and project ordersCustomer specifications, QAPs and the API, ASME or EIL standards they citeDepartment comments, vendor document approval, third-party inspection
FAQ

Contract review questions people ask

Still unsure? Ask our team.

What is contract review?

It is the review a supplier makes of a customer's requirements before accepting an order or a change to it. ISO 9001 calls it review of the requirements for products and services. The aim is simple: never accept work you cannot make, inspect or deliver as asked.

Is this legal contract review software?

No. YourBrand does not redline legal contracts. It handles the manufacturing side of contract review: customer specifications, standards, inspection requirements, document approvals and delivery dates on a sales order.

What does a manufacturing feasibility study cover?

Whether you can make the part to the drawing and specification, with the capacity, tooling, gauges and suppliers you have, at the volume and date the customer wants. In YourBrand, departments comment on the customer specs, PPC gives promise dates, and for new parts the APQP plan records the team feasibility commitment.

How do you identify customer requirements on an order?

List every document the customer sends or calls up: the purchase order, specifications, drawings, standards, inspection and test plans and document deliverables. Log each one with its revision, then have every affected department read it and comment by a set date.

What should a contract review checklist include in manufacturing?

Specification and drawing revisions, the standards they cite, special tests and inspections, third-party inspection, documents the customer must approve, free-issue material, delivery dates per position and any change from the enquiry. Each of these has its own record on the order in YourBrand.

What is design for manufacturability?

Design for manufacturability, often called a DFM review, checks that a part can be made reliably and at sensible cost before the design is frozen. In YourBrand design for manufacturability and assembly is a phase 2 deliverable in the APQP starter template, signed off with its evidence.

What happens when the customer changes the order?

Raise an order change request against the order revision, with the MRP run status and dates. Only one live change request is allowed per revision, and closing it moves the order to its next amendment number.

Review every order before the plant is committed to it

We walk through it with your own parts and documents. It takes about 30 minutes.

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