Production Quality Management Features and Functions

• Defective or excess material return processing must update on-hand


• Damaged material--corrective action and failure analysis available to vendor on-line


• Flags need to perform inspection of a specific item or a supplier's items


• Receives items and records as “inventory on hold” when quality inspection is pending


• Identifies items awaiting or in process of inspection through an online query


• Validates inspection disposition using criteria that specify inspection process


• Tracks material inspection dispositions


• Tracks and reports on non-dispositioned rejects


• Tracks quantity rejected at inspection


• Assigns codes to reject descriptions


• Tracks unresolved rejections


• Processes material receipts which have failed inspection


• Corrective actions can be initiated, and processed, and tracked


• Tracks items for which there is no disposition, or which are rejected pending vendor approval


• Tracks items awaiting rework order


• Tracks items for which use is conditional on QA statement of acceptable variance


• Tracks items awaiting return shipment to vendor


• Provides aggregate supplier quality data


• Transactions related to material returns to vendors can be performed online


• Tracks customer-rejected items awaiting disposition from original supplier


• Automatically updates schedule information for items returned to suppliers


• Lists authorized alternatives for substitution-approved items


• Lists authorized vendors for each item


• Prints document identifying point of return and justification


• Prints debit memo as part of return-to-supplier process


• Recalculates average item cost


• Quality data on-line


• Requirements grouping using collection plans


• Quality document linkage with product master within PDM