The report that closes advanced product quality planning for a programme, summarising the final status of APQP outputs, launch performance, customer feedback, open items handed to production and lessons learned.
Report Work product in the APQP and PPAP lifecycle
It formally ends quality planning for the programme and hands its remaining responsibilities to series production. A programme that never closes lets ownership of open items drift, pulls the APQP team into routine production issues and loses the lessons for the next programme.
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