Using Oracle Quality with Oracle Purchasing
In Oracle Purchasing, you can manage goods and services purchased from suppliers using receipt, transfer, inspection, internal delivery, return, and correction transactions. See: Overview of Receiving.
By using Oracle Quality and Oracle Purchasing together, you can directly control quality at the supply end of the supply chain. You can, for example, do all of the following:
- inspect, then accept or reject, products from a supplier
- collect historical data on items, lots, and serial numbered items received from suppliers
- report failure analysis by problem and product
- place a supplier on hold when their product quality falls below a prescribed level
- place a document on hold until supplier product problems are resolved
- update a supplier's "approved supplier" status based on the quality results entered
- notify buyers automatically when an action, such as placing a supplier or a supplier's document on hold, takes place
See Also
Collection Points in Oracle Purchasing,
Purchasing Versus Quality Inspections
Collection Plans for Purchasing Data Collection
Entering Quality Data for Receiving Transactions
Entering Quality Data for Receiving Inspections
Collection Points in Oracle Purchasing
In this release of Oracle Purchasing, you can collect quality data from Purchasing's Receiving Transactions window, where you can use Oracle Quality in one of two different ways:
- Receiving Transfers and Deliveries: You can use Oracle Quality to collect quality data on items as you transfer them internally within Oracle Purchasing, or before you deliver them to their final locations. To use Oracle Quality for Receiving Transfers or Receiving Deliveries, select the Quality button on Oracle Purchasing's toolbar in the Receiving Transactions window.
- Receiving Inspections: You can choose to use Oracle Quality instead of Oracle Purchasing to accept or reject item quantities in a Receiving Inspection. By using Oracle Quality in place of Oracle Purchasing, you can also collect additional quality data in your Receiving Inspection using customized collection plans. To use Oracle Quality for Receiving Inspections, you will need to first ensure that the QA:PO Inspection Profile option is set to Oracle Quality; then, when you are in the Receiving Transactions window, select the Inspect button.
See Also
Overview of Receiving Transactions
Receiving Transactions
Purchasing Versus Quality Inspections
If you choose to use Oracle Quality in place of Oracle Purchasing to conduct your Receiving Inspections, you will be able to perform every task that is available in a Purchasing Inspection in addition to some other tasks not supported in Purchasing. Quality Inspections functionality is a superset of Purchasing Inspections functionality.
Purchasing Inspections
If you use Oracle Purchasing, you can enter the number of items that were accepted or rejected items and enter information about your inspection results. You can review your inspection results on-line by receipt number, purchase order number, supplier, item, and/or transaction date range. You can also print summary and detail reports to help you analyze your suppliers' performance. Reports can be printed by buyer, supplier, and item. The receiving inspection register can be used to review your inspection results by receipt. See: Inspections.
Quality Inspections
If you use Oracle Quality for inspections, you can collect the same data as in Purchasing plus data for any other collection elements included on the collection plan. You can create charts, descriptive statistic views, and custom reports with the data collected using Quality. Similar to Purchasing Inspections, Quality Inspections allow to Accept and Reject shipments. However, using Quality enables you to trigger additional actions based upon your inspection results.
