GeneralMotorsCorporationAdvancedProductQualityPlanningWorldwidePurchasingOctober2002Revision2PrefaceThisReferenceManualrepresentsthecollaborativeeffortsofaGMworldwideteamengagedtodevelopaGMCommonAPQPprocess
Priortothis,eachGeneralMotorsSupplierQualityorganizationfacilitatedtheimplementationoftheAPQPprocessusingdivisionalandregionalspecificmethodologies
TheglobalteamharmonizedandstandardizedthevariousdivisionalandregionalAPQPprocessesanddevelopedthisGMAPQPManual(GM1927)
ThismanualdefinesGM’scommonglobalproductqualityplanningrequirementsthatarenecessarytodevelopandimplementanAPQPprocessforaproductorservice
ItisintendedasastandardtoprovidetheSupplierQualityEngineer,andthesupplier,acommonformatfromwhichtoproceedwithallstepsofAPQP
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