Ppap Checklist Excel May 2026

Maya stared at her screen. A Tier 1 automotive customer had just moved up their PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) deadline by two weeks. The part: a critical injection-molded bracket for an EV battery tray. Without PPAP sign-off, no shipment. No shipment, a $2M line stop penalty.

And somewhere in the company wiki, a new engineer added a comment: “If you’re ever in trouble, open the PPAP Excel sheet. Then filter by red. Then start there.” ppap checklist excel

That evening, Leo asked Maya, “Should we buy an expensive PPAP software?” Maya stared at her screen

Maya projected her Excel checklist. Filtered by Status = Yellow (waiting on customer) → zero. Filtered by evidence missing → zero. The auditor saw the clean layout, the hyperlinks that worked, the consistent date format (YYYY-MM-DD, ISO standard). Without PPAP sign-off, no shipment