The aim of this paper is to study how aero composite manufacturing companies in Malaysia do performance measures. The paper outlines the method of maintaining the approved suppliers and their continuous compliance to the requirement and to ensure that only approved supplier in the approval supplier list are referred to for purchasing of product manufacturing related activities. This paper provides a rational and comparative approach for findings solutions to eliminate the cause(s) of non-conformities in
order to prevent recurrence or potential non-conformities in product, process, and quality system of suppliers. This is a qualitative case study, which, therefore, limits its generalisability. However, its contextualization enables insight to be applied to the wider manufacturing environment
