Quality Assurance
Consistent Quality Standards-High Customer Satisfaction
Extend your solution with the Quality Assurance module to ensure that you gain complete visibility into your quality operations from a top-down view down to the individual item level. Tie together all quality functions, whether it’s scrapping end parts, rejecting raw materials, or tracking first article inspections. Fulfill all demands through accurate costings using Epicor Kinetic.
Epicor Kinetic Quality Assurance's functionality
Collaborative Quality
Use Collaborate with quality groups, including engineering, production, and sourcing, to enable quality events to be resolved faster, and long-term quality improves as a result of this collaboration. The cost of quality is also reduced dramatically.
Inspection Workbench
Monitor WIP, review all inspections in priority, and automatically take action on those requirements from the inspection workbench. Move past parts back to jobs and failed parts into discrepant material report (DMR) processing or scrap them.
Nonconformant Records
Create a nonconformant record (NCR) for all nonconformant parts. From a job, shop floor employees automatically create an NCR when scraping an end part or raw material. Inventory personnel makes an NCR when they scrap parts from inventory.
Non-Netting Bins
Use non-nettable bins to keep parts undergoing inspection or on-hand quantities.
Discrepant Material Report Processing
After failing inspection, create a DMR to provide the MRB with an online queue of parts that must be dispositioned.
Corrective Action
Create and track all preventive and corrective actions online. With due dates, audit sign-offs, and unlimited comments, corrective actions provide for follow-up of quality issues.
Material Review Board
Dispose of parts by an MRB after they fail inspection. The online documentation provides an audit trail of MRB actions.
Cost of Quality
Generate cost of quality reports to identify how much quality problems are costing, whether parts are scrapped from inventory, a job, or a receipt inspection.
Certificates of Compliance
Check for Certificates of Compliance, such as Certificates of Analysis (COA), Certificates of Quality (COQ), or Certificates of Compliance, when receiving materials from suppliers or in-process parts from outside operation suppliers and before shipping products to customers.
Debit Memos
Create a debit memo in DMR processing, and it is automatically tied to accounts payable.
Audit Trails
View inventory transaction details in inspection and DMR processing with the material transaction detail report.
Packing Slips
Print a customizable packing slip for all parts returned.