Manage Material Quality

This chapter describes how to set up quality collection plans for use when managing material quality.

This chapter covers the following topics:

Integration With Oracle Mobile Warehouse Management

Oracle Mobile Warehouse Management's License Plate Number (LPN) Inspection integrates with Oracle Quality. (The LPN transaction that integrates with Oracle Quality is the Receipts Inspection transaction. Other LPN transactions like flow completion, and workorderless completion transactions, are not supported.) First scan the LPN number and enter the Item number, Revision, and indicate a Quantity to be inspected. The system takes you to the Inspection form. This form is dynamically determined at run-time. You will either see the default WMS Inspection screen, or the Quality Inspection screen.

Oracle Quality is triggered only if the following conditions are met:

Sampling would be applicable for serial controlled items. However, when the inspection mode is not serial range inspection, the Inspection Quantity from the parent form to the child page would always be 1 and the sample size also would be 1. Hence, it would be necessary that all serial controlled items in the LPN would be inspected. For serial controlled items, wherein the parent inspection mode is not serial range inspection, the sampling though applicable would not be of any use as every item quantity needs to be individually inspected till the entire LPN Quantity is inspected.

If Oracle Quality is triggered, you can enter multiple records of quality-related data, such as an Inspection Result of Accept or Reject. The inspection results are then passed back to the Inspection form. You can also perform receiving and inspection functions on multiple platforms.

Note: Mobile Quality result entry also supports User Mask support for Datetime collection elements.

Here are two example scenarios:

Example 1: Mobile Receipt, Desktop Inspection, then Mobile Return to Inventory

Enter the receipt into the mobile device by entering the purchase order number, LPN, receiving subinventory, locator, quantity, receipt number,, packing slip, and airbill numbers.

At a desktop computer, find your receipt in the Receiving Transactions window. Select the Inspect button. The collection plan opens and contains the subinventory, locator, LPN, and date and time of the receipt. You can transfer some of the quantity to another LPN if needed due to rejection or another reason within the collection plan.

Use a mobile device to put away the inspected goods. Enter the LPN. The system requests that you reenter the subinventory and locator to confirm the location of the goods.

Example 2: Desktop Receipt, Mobile Inspection, then Desktop Return to Inventory

At the desktop computer, create a new receipt in Oracle Purchasing. Using the Packing Workbench window, pack the receipt into an LPN. The system generates a LPN.

Use a mobile device to enter inspection results. Use the LPN to identify the receipt undergoing inspection, then enter the data into the collection plan.

Using the desktop computer, navigate to the Receiving Transactions window. Enter the location where you put away the inspected goods.

Collection Elements

You are enabled to collect data through Direct Data Entry using seeded Collection Elements. In case of mixed mode transaction (i.e. receipt through desktop and put-away through mobile and vice versa) for WMS enabled organizations, the desktop inspection collection plan must have the collection element 'License Plate Number' included. Use the following collection elements:

Quality Actions

You can launch actions to set lot status and serial status to any user defined value. You can use the Quality Collection Plan or Quality Collection Element forms to define an action: For example, when the inspection result is Rejected, set the status of Lot A to Hold.

There are two pre-defined actions:

Related Topics

Overview of Collection Elements

Predefined Collection Elements

Entering Quality Results Directly

Profile Options

Actions

Generating License Plate Numbers, Oracle Warehouse Management User's Guide