01 / Staying qualified as an automotive-plant supplier
Step 1 · Where it starts
A single shared folder where every certificate a Honda or Delta Faucet auditor might ask for is uploaded once and kept current.
Step 2 · What gets automated
Whoever actually owns a certificate — the safety officer, the insurance broker — gets nudged weeks before it expires, not the day a customer catches the lapse.
Step 3 · The process it plugs into
When an auditor or buyer asks for proof, the current version is already sitting there instead of getting rebuilt from scattered emails.
Step 4 · SolaceSentry review
A quality lead checks a packet against the plant's spec before release, and old versions are kept on file rather than overwritten.
Step 5 · What leaves the system
A finished document set ready the day it is asked for, with a log of which version went where.
Proof metric: How many days a document request sits open, and how many certificates lapse before anyone catches it.