Compliance & risk
AS9100
AS9100 is the quality management standard for the aerospace industry, extending ISO 9001 with aerospace-specific requirements covering configuration management, risk management, product safety, counterfeit part prevention, and traceability through the supply chain.
What AS9100 adds to ISO 9001
AS9100 incorporates ISO 9001 in full and adds requirements reflecting the consequences of failure in aerospace. The additions most visible in day-to-day procurement concern configuration control, traceability, and supplier oversight.
For a buying team this translates into concrete obligations: knowing which revision was ordered and which was supplied, holding evidence of conformity, being able to trace material back through the supply chain, and demonstrating that suppliers are monitored rather than merely selected.
The supplier oversight requirement is where teams struggle
Demonstrating supplier oversight requires evidence of ongoing monitoring, not just an approval record from three years ago. Auditors look for the trail: what was communicated, what the supplier committed to, what actually happened, and what was done about gaps.
That trail is straightforward when it is a by-product of how work is done and painful when it must be reconstructed from individual inboxes after the fact.
How Evolinq handles it
Because Evolinq's agents conduct the supplier conversation, the oversight evidence AS9100 audits look for is generated as a by-product of execution rather than reconstructed afterwards.
Frequently asked questions
What is AS9100?
AS9100 is the aerospace industry's quality management standard. It includes ISO 9001 and adds aerospace-specific requirements for configuration management, risk management, product safety, counterfeit part prevention, and supply chain traceability.
How does AS9100 affect procurement?
It imposes obligations on how supplier relationships are documented and monitored: revision control on what was ordered versus supplied, retained evidence of conformity, traceability of material, and demonstrable ongoing supplier oversight rather than one-time approval.