Challenges in practice
From a holistic quality management perspective, an optimised, quality-assured flow of goods is essential. Incoming goods inspection is an integral part of your logistics processes to ensure that the products supplied are delivered in the form/properties ordered. An efficient link with the ERP logistics processes, sampling plans, group inspection plans and skip/lot logics are the prerequisite for efficiently integrating incoming goods inspections into the overall context of supplier management.
Solution QS1
Speed up and automate your incoming goods inspection process, ensure compliance with inspection regulations and reduce your costs. Create inspection plans globally, for article groups, articles or article/supplier relationships.
Automatic dynamisation based on sampling plans allows you to direct the inspection effort to the right place and thus save resources in the inspection process. You can define any number of dynamisation levels (e.g. reduced inspection, normal inspection, more stringent inspection, first delivery inspection or skip lot).
The necessary data from the ERP system is available in real time thanks to the end-to-end integration of your ERP system. Regardless of whether it concerns suppliers, articles, order information or goods receipt information.
Goods receipts from suppliers or from external processing lead to the generation of the inspection order immediately after the goods receipt posting. Various procedures are available for distributing the checks within the company. Employees are guided intuitively through the attributive or variable checks. Additional information (texts, images, documents, CAD data) is displayed to the employee for each characteristic in the inspection steps.
Based on the standard integration with your ERP system, the checks lead to automatic processing of the IO consequences. Depending on the settings, a material posting, the creation of a putaway order and/or the release of batches/serial numbers can be triggered.
In the NOK case, the employee responsible in the complaints area is informed via the integrated workflow. This employee starts the processing of the deviations in the complaints module. In many cases, only the dispatch of the inspection report and the release of the complaint for the supplier portal take place.
- Inspection orders for incoming goods from suppliers or external processing
- Outgoing goods inspection by the supplier / certificate entry by the supplier
- Automatic order generation from your ERP system
- Integrated laboratory information and management system (LIMS)
- Workflow-based order processing
- Extensive test station control options
- Barcode integration
- Free layout design of the feedback at feature level
- Connection of all common measuring equipment and measuring machines
- Batches, serial numbers, cavities, additional data, process parameters
- Automatic logistics consequences in your ERP system on completion of inspection orders
- History function / audit trail at all data levels
- Digital signatures with x-eye principle in the GxP environment
- Extensive standard forms
- Automatic distribution of information via workflow and agents
- Derivation of complaints in the event of errors
- Influence in supplier evaluation - supplier management
- Supplier certificates
- Integration of manual measuring equipment, testing machines, analysers, etc.
- Document control
- Analyses / key figures / dashboards
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Your advantages
- Thanks to the clearly structured assignment of the required inspections at different levels in combination with your ERP data, you minimise the administrative effort involved in creating and maintaining your inspection plans.
- Thanks to data and process communication with your ERP system, the required inspection orders with their respective inspection specifications are created fully automatically.
- The results of the incoming goods inspections (iO/niO/...) trigger the necessary ERP consequences such as QA status, release/block bookings, etc. in your goods flow.
- The required supplier certificates are available at the level of your batches / serial numbe