Quality Management Best Practices

Quality Inspections

• For Creating a Data Field:

  • Limitation – You can only create up to 40 data fields per inspection.

  • Optimal practice – You should create 30 data fields per inspection.

  For more information, see Quality Inspections.

• By default, an inspection with simple sampling includes the Defect Count and Samples Inspected inspection data fields.

  You can delete these fields and the associated pass/fail criteria from the corresponding inspection, but you should avoid this practice.

• Only mark an inspection as Is Inactive if you don't want it to be processed.

  You shouldn't collect data or do evaluations on an inactive inspection. You also can't change or select an inactive inspection for a new specification. For more information, see Assigning a Quality Inspection to a Specification.

• For Quality Inspection Sampling for CSV:

  • Sample Row Threshold for CSV – The default value is 25.

    To configure the threshold sample row count to enable the CSV upload option for sample data, complete Configuring Sample Row Threshold for CSV.

  • Optimal practice – You should create the following:

    • 30 data fields per sample for CSV upload

    • 500 maximum sample rows for CSV upload

Quality Specifications

• For Creating a Quality Inspection:

  • Limitation – You can only create up to 35 inspections per specification.

  • Optimal practice – You should create 20 inspections per specification.

• Only mark a specification as Is Inactive if you do not want it to be processed.

  You can't change or select an inactive specification for a new context definition. For more information, see Adding a Specification Conformance Rule.

• When Creating a Specification Context, you should only select Production Result as the Transaction Type if you report data through Advanced Manufacturing.

Ad Hoc Inspection Queues

• Make sure you manually create Ad Hoc Inspection Queues to trigger ad hoc inspections.

• To trigger inspection queue generation for inventory transactions with reference to relevant NetSuite parent transactions, complete Creating an Ad Hoc Inspection Queue With a Transaction Reference.

• If you want to inspect an item available in inventory from a specific bin or inventory status, complete Creating an Ad Hoc Inspection Queue Without a Transaction Reference.

Quality Management Saved Searches and Workflows

• Quality Management Saved Searches and Quality Management Workflows are automated in your account. Some saved searches and workflows require action before you can use them.

  Review the respective topics and configure the necessary steps.

• Quality Management saved searches and workflows are not integrated with ad hoc inspection queues with a parent transaction reference.

• You can only implement either the Receipt Quarantines or Enhanced Receipt Quarantines workflow at one time.

  For more information, see the following topics:

  • Receipt Quarantines Workflows

  • Enhanced Receipt Quarantine Workflow

• To configure the Enhanced Receipt Quarantines workflow properly, you need to assign the same Pre-Inspection Bin for the Fail, After Data Creation, and Pass states.

  For more information, see Configuring the Enhanced Receipt Quarantines Workflow.

Certificate of Analysis (COA)

If you add a COA data field to an inspection, make sure you report all lots during inspection because the system ignores skip lot functionality. For more information, see the following topics:

• Creating a Quality Inspection

• Defining a Certificate of Analysis (COA) Field

Derived Field Plug-in Implementation

• Only use the Derived Field Plug-in Implementation if you know JavaScript and have experience with it.

• Set up the right people to get an email if your plug-in fails.

  For more information, see Email Recipients for a Derived Field Plug-in Implementation Failure.

Quality Management Tablet Interface

• For Quality Management Mobile Data Collection, with a network speed of 25 MB/s, you can upload images up to 7MB.

• You have to enter data field values manually during inspection.

• You can't customize the tablet header.

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