Collection Plans for Receiving Inspections
When you decide to inspect item quantities and make a decision as to whether or not to accept or reject them, you can use Oracle Quality in place of Oracle Purchasing to conduct an inspection (called a Receiving Inspection).
Inspection collection plans must be associated with the Receiving Inspection collection transaction and are unique in several ways:
- Receiving Inspection collection transactions must be set as mandatory. Also, because Accept and Reject actions cannot be performed when the data collection is background, Receiving Inspection collection transactions cannot be set as background.
Note: Receiving Inspections collection plans used for Receiving Inspections must be enabled.
- Receiving Inspection collection plans must include the following collection elements:
Note: These collection elements must be defined as Displayed, Mandatory and Enabled. If you disable any of these required collection elements or make them non-mandatory, the collection plan cannot be used for inspections.
- The 'Accept the shipment' and 'Reject shipment' actions should be associated with for the Inspection Result Action collection plan element.
To ensure that these conditions are met, when you associate the Receiving Inspection collection transaction with an enabled collection plan, the system prompts you to complete the setup. You cannot save your work until you have entered quality results or had them defaulted in.
Creating an Inspection Collection Plan from a Template
To simplify the process of creating inspection collection plans, a template collection plan, 'PO Inspection,' is pre-seeded in Oracle Quality. See: Creating Collection Plans from Templates: .
You can copy the elements from the 'Template PO Inspection' template collection plan to the inspection collection plan you have created to ensure that the required collection elements are included. The 'PO Inspection' template collection plan also includes collection elements that are not required. Once copied over to your own collection plan, you can delete those collection plan elements -- Comments, Quality Code, Reason Code, Supplier Lot Number -- that are copied but are not required. You can also add user-defined and additional context elements.
Specifications
You can optionally define specifications and specification sub-types. When quality data is collected, you can choose a specification to be used during quality data collection.
