Supplier Product Analysis (Oracle Quality Help)


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Supplier Product Analysis

Your company manufactures refrigerators. Your receiving department conducts inspection (receiving inspection) on components that are purchased, among them: compressors, plastic parts, and steel shelves.

Let's consider a representative purchased part -- a plastic pan cover for a refrigerator. The inspection process could be as follows:

1. Purchased parts are staged in the receiving area.

2. Inspector retrieves part file to conduct the inspection. Part file contains the following:

a current engineering drawing

a control plan which describes the sample size, dimensions to measure and gauges to use, critical attributes such as color and smooth edges, and other applicable information. (example below)

The following table delineates the specifications to which your item should adhere:

Part Number: 1107943
Description		Pan Cover
Sample Size		5 pieces per shipment
Specification	Location	Method	Sample 1	Sample 2
length: 17.000 +/- 0.05 in.	G3	24" caliper	17.015 in.	16.999 in.
radius: 0.250 +/- 0.005 in.	H5	radius gauge	0.250 in.	0.252 in.
diameter: 1.625 +/- 0.05 in.	H1	3" caliper	1.622 in.	1.625 in.
check for scratches	A2	visual appearance	OK	OK
Table 1 - 10. (Page 1 of 1)

Setup in Quality

Based upon the above information, you have determined that you must create a collection plan that includes the following collection elements:

Item

Supplier

Quantity

Transaction Date

UOM Name

Inspection Result

Sample Size

Length

Radius

Diameter

Appearance

Collection Elements

Four of the collection elements listed above (Quantity, Transaction Date, UOM Name and Inspection Result) are pre-seeded and mandatory for all inspection plans. Two of the collection elements listed above are also pre-seeded context elements (Item and Supplier). Five of them (Sample Size, Length, Radius, Diameter and Appearance) will have to be user-defined.

Specifications

Create an item specification, pan cover, specifically for the pan cover. Add the collection elements length, radius and diameter to the specification and specify that they conform to the requirements delineated above in Table 8-1.

Collection Plan

Next, create a Receiving Inspection collection plan called "Supplier Quality". The collection plan can be assigned any collection plan type.

Your collection plan should contain the collection elements listed above. You should define all of them to be displayed. You must define the four required collection elements (Quantity, Transaction Date, UOM Name and Inspection Result) to be both mandatory and enabled.

Note: Copying collection elements from the template collection plan: Template PO Inspection will ensure that the required collection elements are included.

Collection Plan Element Actions

For all Receiving Inspection collection plans, you must associate two actions ('Accept the shipment' and 'Reject the shipment')with the collection element called Inspection Result Action.

Next, define appropriate actions for your other collection plan elements. For example, you can associate actions for the collection elements length, radius and diameter which fire when the length, radius or diameter do not fall within the specifications you define. For example, you can define an action which, when the length is not within your specification, displays the message: "Reject the item", or "Remeasure the length". See: Defining Collection Element Actions.

Inspection Transactions

Next, associate the Supplier Quality collection plan with the Receiving Inspection transaction. The Receiving Inspection must be both enabled and mandatory to ensure that quality data is collected before the receiving transaction is saved.

After you have finished setting up your collection plan in Quality and associated it with a Purchasing transaction, navigate to Oracle Purchasing. You can conduct your inspection by selecting the Inspect button in Purchasing's Receiving Transactions window. This will enable you to collect quality data for the elements defined in your 'Supplier Quality' collection plan.

Note: Before you can view and analyze your quality results, the PO Transaction Processor must successfully process and deliver your inspection input.

Results Analysis

Once a representative sample of data is collected, you can analyze the data using a trend chart to determine which suppliers are lowering your overall product quality.

To do this you can create a trend chart using the length, radius or diameter as the Y-axis element (element to be analyzed). You can create charts showing all the following:

trends over time of the dimension specifications for all suppliers

trends over time of the dimension specifications for specific suppliers

Periodic analysis of the data will reveal any trends pertaining to product quality. For example, you may observe a drift in diameter over time. If different suppliers supply the same item, your Oracle Quality analysis can reveal if one can maintain closer tolerances than the other.