Product Engineering - Quality Management

How To : Use the Item Category template

With the Item and Item Category templates you set which items are to be inspected with which measurement template. This could be inbound shipments (from vendors) as well as outbound shipments (to customers). To set this at the item level, assuming that each item can be different some alternatives have been created to make setup easier:

  • Templates per Item category and product groups, apply the same measurement template to an entire category or group of items.
  • Target values, set a basic template for an item or a group of items and vary the details (answers) in target values.

The Item Category Template sets the links between Item Categories and/or Products Groups, vendors, customers and measurement templates.

Field Description
Item Category Select an Item category.
Vendor No. Select a Vendor number
This setting instructs QM, in combination with an item category and a measurement template to, for example, inspect all items with this item category / product group received from this vendor.
Customer No. Select a Customer number
This setting instructs QM, in combination with an item category and a measurement template to, for example, inspect all items with this item category / product group shipped to this customer.
Measurement Template Select a Measurement Template.
When an Incident, type Material, is created the system starts a search for a Measurement Template and will follow this sequence:
1. Standard Task Templates
2. Service Item Group Templates
3. Item Templates
4. Item Category Templates

See also

Tasks

Reference

Quality Management