Quality Management Best Practices

To take full advantage of the Quality Management SuiteApp, you should follow the suggested best practices.

The following sections highlight best practices for specific features:

Quality Inspections
Quality Specifications
Ad Hoc Inspection Queues
Quality Management Saved Searches and Workflows
Certificate of Analysis (COA)
Derived Field Plug-in Implementation
Quality Management Tablet Interface

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.

To have your own summary fields for sampling inspection, you must complete one of the following:
- Inactivating Default Data Fields for an Individual Inspection
- Inactivating Default Data Fields for All Inspections
Make sure you only mark an inspection as Is Inactive if you do not want it to be processed.

You should not perform data collection or evaluations against the inactive inspection. You also cannot modify or select the inactive inspection as part of 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.
Make sure you only mark a specification as Is Inactive if you do not want it to be processed.

You cannot modify or select the 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.

Make sure you 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 any specific time.

For more information, see the following topics:
- Receipt Quarantines Workflows
- Enhanced Receipt Quarantine Workflow
To configure the Enhanced Receipt Quarantines workflow properly, you must 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 attach a COA data field to an inspection, ensure you report all lots during inspection because the system ignores skip lot functionality. For more information, see the following topics:

Derived Field Plug-in Implementation

You should only use the Derived Field Plug-in Implementation if you have JavaScript knowledge and experience.
You should configure the appropriate recipients to receive an email notification if your plug-in implementation fails.

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

Quality Management Tablet Interface

For Quality Management Mobile Data Collection, a network speed of 25 MB/s lets you upload an image size up to 7MB.
You must manually input data field values during inspection.
You cannot customize the tablet header.