Quality Management Systems
Aerospace-certified suppliers worldwide (IAQG OASIS, 2025)
Aerospace-specific requirements beyond ISO 9001
Top nonconformance finding across all AS91XX audits
Regulation Overview
IAQG Online Aerospace Supplier Information System (OASIS)
AS9100 is the international aerospace quality management system standard and the baseline requirement for suppliers operating in aviation, space, and defense supply chains. For supply chain and compliance teams, the primary obligation is maintaining documented evidence of supplier qualification, product safety controls, counterfeit parts prevention, and configuration management across every tier.
The IAQG OASIS database now lists over 29,000 certified suppliers worldwide, with 18% growth over the past two years. Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and virtually every major OEM require AS9100 certification as a condition of doing business. AS9100 compliance demands continuous compliance monitoring and audit readiness—not just a certificate on the wall. With the IA9100 transition expected in late 2026, organizations face system-level changes to information security, ethics, and data-driven supplier oversight that require preparation now.
AS9100 compliance intersects with multiple regulatory frameworks. Organizations managing hazardous substances must also address REACH and RoHS obligations at the material level, while defense contractors face overlapping CMMC cybersecurity requirements and DFARS flowdown obligations.
Aerospace, aviation, and defense manufacturers producing parts and assemblies
Tier 1, Tier 2, and sub-tier suppliers to prime OEMs (Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon)
Distributors of aerospace components (AS9120 applies specifically)
MRO organizations (AS9110 applies specifically)
Non-aerospace suppliers providing critical materials, processes, or services to the aerospace supply chain
Companies assembling complex products incorporating aerospace-grade components
Key Thresholds
Your OEM customer requires AS9100 compliance evidence from Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers. You have 400 external providers across 12 countries. Thirty percent are on approved supplier lists that haven't been re-evaluated in 18 months. Certificates are scattered across email attachments, shared drives, and filing cabinets. Your auditor asks for current OASIS verification—and your team spends three days pulling records.
Your annual surveillance audit is in six weeks. Five supplier certifications expired last quarter—but nobody flagged it. Two corrective actions from the last audit lack effectiveness verification. The management review minutes are incomplete. Your quality manager works nights assembling the evidence package. The auditor writes a minor nonconformance for Clause 8.4 supplier controls—again.
A suspect component enters receiving inspection. Your counterfeit prevention procedure requires traceability to the original manufacturer. The purchase order references an authorized distributor, but the material certificate shows a different lot number than the packing slip. Without centralized traceability records, your team cannot confirm authenticity within the quarantine window. Production stops.
A prime contractor issues updated supplier quality requirements. Sixty-three purchase orders need amended flowdown clauses. Each PO references different revision levels of customer specifications. Your procurement team manually updates each one—but three suppliers receive outdated requirements, triggering a Clause 8.4.3 finding at the next audit. Manual document control at this scale breaks down.
Certivo In Action
Certivo in Action — AS9100 Workflow
Features Tabs
Aerospace & Defense
Your Pain Point
Prime flowdown to multi-tier supply chains; OASIS verification across hundreds of suppliers
Electronics Manufacturing
Your Pain Point
Aerospace-grade electronic components require counterfeit prevention and traceability
Automotive Manufacturing
Your Pain Point
Dual AS9100/IATF 16949 requirements for companies serving both sectors
Industrial Machinery & Heavy Equipment
Your Pain Point
Heavy equipment components entering aerospace programs require AS9100-grade documentation
Medical Devices & Equipment
Your Pain Point
Shared supply chains between aerospace and medical; overlapping traceability requirements
Chemical Manufacturing
Your Pain Point
Raw material suppliers to aerospace must demonstrate composition traceability
Energy & Infrastructure
Your Pain Point
Turbine and power generation components share aerospace material and quality standards
Government & Public Sector
Your Pain Point
Defense procurement requires AS9100-certified suppliers; DFARS/FAR flowdown compliance
From Manual Document Chasing to Exception Management
CORA collects and validates supplier quality data automatically. Your team focuses on risk-based decisions—not tracking down expired certificates and missing FAIR reports through manual hazardous substance tracking and document control.
Audit Evidence Acceleration
Generate complete, clause-by-clause AS9100 audit evidence packages in hours—not the 4–6 weeks of manual compilation that leaves your quality team working nights before surveillance audits.
Proactive AS9100 Compliance
When supplier certifications approach expiration or IAQG publishes standard updates, Certivo reassesses your supplier base instantly. Know which suppliers need attention before your auditor—or your OEM customer—asks.
Frequently Asked Questions
What companies are required to comply with AS9100?
Any organization supplying products or services to the aviation, space, or defense industry is effectively required to comply. While AS9100 is not a government regulation, Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, and virtually every major OEM mandate AS9100 certification through supplier quality requirements. Certification must be registered in the IAQG OASIS database for recognition. Certivo automates the tracking of certification status across your entire supplier base, ensuring no lapses go undetected before OEM qualification reviews.
What are the most common AS9100 audit findings?
Clause 8.4 (Control of External Providers) is consistently the top nonconformance finding across all AS91XX audits globally, according to IAQG OASIS data. Common failures include inactive approved supplier lists, missing supplier performance monitoring records, and insufficient flowdown of requirements to sub-tier suppliers. CORA's automated supplier data collection and real-time monitoring eliminates these gaps by maintaining current, validated evidence for every external provider.
How does Certivo prepare organizations for the IA9100 transition?
Certivo maintains regulatory intelligence and horizon scanning for the IA9100 transition, tracking IAQG publications and draft requirements as they emerge. When IA9100 publishes in late 2026, Certivo will map new clause requirements—including information security, ethics, and sustainability—against your existing QMS documentation and flag gaps, helping your team plan transition audits with full visibility into readiness status.
What documentation formats does Certivo accept from aerospace suppliers?
Certivo accepts any format through AI document parsing and certificate validation: PDF certificates, scanned documents, Excel quality records, AS9102 FAIR reports, material test reports, and supplier self-assessment questionnaires. CORA extracts critical data—certification body, scope, expiration dates, OASIS ID—regardless of format or language, eliminating the need to standardize supplier inputs across a global aerospace supply chain.
Does Certivo support AS9100 alongside other aerospace and regulatory frameworks?
Yes. Certivo validates against AS9100, AS9110, AS9120, NADCAP, EU REACH, RoHS, TSCA, and PFAS regulations from a single supplier submission. This centralized compliance data backbone eliminates duplicate collection campaigns. For organizations subject to both quality and substance compliance obligations, one supplier interaction satisfies multiple framework requirements through Certivo's multi-framework validation engine.