The purpose of QDMS in regard to document control is to provide a complete management system for engineering documents in a project environment. Key elements of this purpose include:

• Maintain a register of the current revision of all documents.
• Manage the distribution of documents via transmittal.
• Build an audit trail of who received what document, at what revision, when and why.
• As new and revised documents are received, maintain an auditable document history of received dates for contractual purposes.
• Ensure recipients are issued the latest revisions of documents that they have previously received at an earlier revision.
• Manage responses to transmittals such as drawing approvals.
• Manage the shop drawings submittal process.
• Manage transmittal acknowledgements.
• Enable viewing of documents on screen plus red lining capabilities for document reviews.