A quality management process is defined by its inspections and specifications. NetSuite defines a quality specification as a collection of related inspections. These inspections and specifications determine the level of quality measured against shop floor processes and incoming and outgoing shipments.
Quality inspections define data fields and associated standards to examine, measure, compare, or test product material or characteristics.
Inspection queues are generated based on an inventory transaction. Quality Specifications group related inspections that define inspection scenarios and enable inspections to be refined in relation to specific items. For example, default values or standards. Specifications provide the foundation for capturing quality data, creating reports, improving workflows, and identifying non-conformance. A good quality specification formalizes a company’s inventory and process standards, and defines non-conformance rules and the applicable business processes they should trigger.
Specification context records enable the quality administrator to define when NetSuite invokes a specification. Identifying these fields helps Quality SuiteApp to monitor the appropriate transaction type and then match transaction details against context settings. When a match is identified, all inspections identified on the context record are added to the inspection queue to initiate shop floor activity.
A specification can only be triggered when an active matching context record is identified and the specification is active.
The Quality SuiteApp offers two administrative reports- Specification Review and Inspection Review that help you to review the Quality SuiteApp setup and inspection execution. Each report appears in a separate window where you can preview results to help refine your criteria.