Capabilities directory
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- Function: Procurement and suppliers
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- Function: Quality management
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36 capabilities, showing 1 to 24
Audit evidence index
The quality lead gets an index of everything an audit has asked to see: each request linked to the document that answers it, its version and owner, the records found and the gaps. The quality owner decides what is shared; nothing is certified or sent.
Business insurance renewal review
Before the business insurance renews, the owner gets one pack: every policy with insurer, limits, deductibles, premium and dates; renewal terms beside expiring ones, every change marked; what changed in the business; claims; and questions for the broker. The broker and the owner decide all cover.
Carrier performance review
The shipping lead gets a lane-by-lane comparison of carriers from the delivery export and the freight charges: on-time delivery, damage, tracking gaps and cost, each with the shipments behind it. A person decides whether to raise issues or change carrier.
Category sourcing plan
For the buyer or operations lead who owns one spend category, such as packaging or IT hardware: its spend and suppliers on one page, where it sits on a supply-risk and spend matrix, the value levers the evidence supports, and a dated sourcing plan. A person chooses the approach.
Client-status update preparation
Every client gets an accurate status update on schedule, drafted from the notes and the task list, with confirmed dates kept apart from estimates and the client’s open decisions in plain view.
Contractor safety prequalification
For a named job, the operations, facilities or site manager gets a safety questionnaire scaled to the risk of the work, then a record of the contractor's answers scored only on the evidence supplied, with every gap, the conditions that close it and a review date. A competent person decides.
Cost of poor quality worksheet
An owner or operations lead who senses that rework, scrap and returns are costly gets one worksheet: the failure costs already on record, sorted by category, with estimates, gaps and unresolved allocations listed. The owner decides what to fix first.
Incident investigation and corrective actions
After an injury, near miss or property damage, the site, operations or safety manager gets the investigation written up from the evidence: a timeline, the immediate and underlying causes, actions with owners and dates, and a register that follows each action until a check shows it worked.
Nonconformity record draft
A quality lead or supervisor who has spotted something wrong gets a draft record: the observation set against the stated requirement, the affected work counted from the register, and the containment options. The quality owner decides every call.
Obsolete copy check
The quality lead gets the master document list set against the copies found at each point of use: which copies are out of date, which withdrawn documents are still held, and what proof of withdrawal exists. The document owner withdraws and replaces copies; nothing is changed.
Order size comparison
When a supplier offers a bigger discounted order, the inventory planner gets each quantity costed the same way: yearly cost, cash tied up, months of cover and storage fit. The planner chooses the quantity; nothing is ordered.
Premortem before a decision
Before your team commits to a plan that is hard to undo, such as a move, a launch or a new system, a short workshop pictures it a few months on, already failed. The record ranks the reasons, turns each top risk into a check, a warning sign and an owner, and leaves the go decision with the owner.
Process map and bottleneck review
Map one process step by step: who does each step, how long work waits and how long it takes, where it is handed over and where it gets sent back. Then find the one step that caps how much gets finished, and what to try there first. The owner decides what changes.
Product recall customer contact plan
Once your business has issued a recall, the customer care lead gets the contact plan: affected customers from the order export, the approved notice word for word, drafts that offer only the remedies you run, and a tracker that counts a customer done only when the item is back or repaired.
Project handover readiness check
When a finished deliverable is ready for the team that will run it, the project manager brings one checklist against that team's own requirements: acceptance evidence, instructions, access, training, support owners and open items. The receiving owner accepts or names the conditions still to meet.
Project intake and capacity review
When a new initiative is proposed, the portfolio owner sees it scored on the business's own criteria beside the projects already committed, the delivery days it would use month by month, and what it would crowd out or push later. The owner accepts, defers or rejects it.
Project lessons review
When a phase or a project ends, the project manager gets one blameless review: whether it achieved what it was for, how scope, schedule and budget moved and why, whether the success measures were the right ones, and practice changes for the team to choose, each with an owner and a follow-up date.
Project scope baseline
A project manager turns an approved brief into a draft scope baseline: the deliverables, what is excluded, the acceptance criteria for each deliverable, the constraints and the open questions for the sponsor. Nothing implied counts as scope until the sponsor says so.
Project status report
The lead of an internal project gets a status report the sponsor can read in two minutes: each workstream red, amber or green with the reason, what moved, who must clear each blocker, the decisions needed and the dates at risk. No milestone is called done without evidence, and the lead confirms every status.
Quality management review pack
Before the periodic quality review, the quality lead gets one brief for senior leaders: where each measure stands, complaints and defects, audit findings, action status, and the decisions still open. The leaders decide; the brief claims no compliance with any standard.
Repeat incident pattern review
A safety lead with a year of incident records and earlier actions gets them compared in groups: confirmed causes, what was done before, and where incidents recur, with questions for the team. A competent person judges what the pattern means.
Reviewer comments into one resolution list
The owner of a document that came back from several reviewers gets one checklist: every proposed edit and comment, grouped by section, with clashes between reviewers set side by side. Every item stays open until the owner decides it, and the document itself is never touched.
Schedule recovery options
When a committed milestone slips, the project manager brings the sponsor two to four ways back: what each changes, the dates it gives every later milestone and dependency, and the assumptions it rests on. The sponsor chooses; delivery leads confirm the dates.
Scope change impact review
When new work turns up in a project plan, the project manager gets one review: every deliverable compared with the agreed baseline, each addition marked approved or not, its estimated effect on effort, cost and the end date, and the decision the sponsor has to make. The sponsor accepts or declines each one.