If you’re going to work with a supplier or other external organization to provide you with a material or service, you need to prove that you’ve done your due diligence to ensure that they are compliant and meet GxP requirements and determined that they are qualified for you to work with.
Supplier Quality Management (SQM) is the process by which you record and track the outcome of that due diligence in Vault. You can qualify an External Site as a provider of one or more Materials and/or Services.
All qualification decisions and workflows are performed at the External Site level and help you build your Approved Suppliers Lists.