---
name: supplier-audit-corrective-action
description: Turns supplier-audit evidence into a structured audit report, classified findings, and corrective-action request with traceable requirements. Use for supplier qualification, periodic audits, quality-system reviews, and follow-up of supplier nonconformities.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  adlass.categories: "operations/quality-management, operations/supplier-management"
  adlass.industries: "manufacturing"
  adlass.tags: "supplier-audit, corrective-action, manufacturing, quality, findings"
  adlass.adaptation: "reference-doc"
  adlass.source: "n8n:M-05"
  adlass.version: "1"
---

# Supplier audit and corrective action report

## Purpose

Provide a consistent, evidence-based view of supplier performance and the actions needed to close audit findings.

## Scope

Supplier quality, process, documentation, and control audits against a defined checklist, standard, or customer requirement. **Excluded:** supplier communication, audit certification, and acceptance of corrective actions.

## Data basis

- Audit checklist, notes and evidence, supplier record, prior findings, applicable standard, and corrective-action procedure.
- The fixed records, tables, or folders in the skill scope that hold the relevant history or schema.

## Result

An audit report, findings sheet, corrective-action request, and follow-up register row.

## Quality criteria

- Each finding cites the checklist item, evidence, and supplier location or process.
- Classifications use the defined severity vocabulary.
- Findings state requirement, condition, risk, and evidence gap.
- Each action has a measurable closure criterion and due date or missing value.
- Repeat findings are linked to prior reports.

## Instructions

Write findings as condition versus requirement, not as opinion. Keep observations, nonconformities, and recommendations distinct. Apply the company severity rules and do not infer a certification status. Group duplicate evidence only when it supports the same condition. Link corrective actions to the finding identifier and state what evidence would demonstrate closure.

## Adapt before use

Keep the source trail close to every conclusion and preserve the difference between a source fact, a calculated value, an assumption, and a recommendation. Use stable identifiers across the document and sheet so a reviewer can move from a summary statement to the underlying row and source. Prefer a complete, transparent partial result over a confident answer built on missing evidence.

- Add the audit checklist, applicable standard, and severity scale.
- Define corrective-action due-date and closure rules.
- Specify supplier risk tiers and escalation roles.
- Provide the required report and register formats.