Warehouse Management with Quality Management (Part III)

Ending this small series of posts on quality with WMS, we will comment on the function that allows us to take inventories detected with breaks to the quality locations so that they can be correctly validated.

Within the daily work in the warehouse, one of the most common cases a worker can find is receiving a box or pallet that is beaten or has breaks. In these cases, the most common is sending it to the quality area, allowing it to be tested and controlled by the imposed standards, leading to the decision of whether it is usable.

Within Dynamics, we can activate the "Quality in quality control" option, allowing us to control it as an alternative to the process seen in the previous posts.

This option will cause the system to indicate that quick quality control of what has been received is carried out during the reception.

If the control is correct, the regular placement work will be executed, and the inventory will be located in the defined locations.

Otherwise, it will be taken to the quality area, automatically triggering a quality order on inventory for further analysis.

In the first post of this series, we saw how to activate this feature; now, we see how to configure it.

Continuing with the configuration, creating our quality control template is the first. To do this, in the Warehouse management / Configure / Work / Quality control template route, we will make our template:

Acceptance Directive gives us two options.

• Ask the user It will show a message to the reader, asking the user if it is accepted or has defects, to know if it is sent to quality or its final location.

• Auto reject. He will always consider that it has defects so that he will send it to quality.

On the other hand, the Quality Processing Directive has the options of

• Create only a job. Will only create quality motion work

• Create quality orders. Create the quality order to facilitate testing.

In our example, which can be seen in the image, we will configure it to show a message to the user, and the user indicates whether to go to quality or not.

Additionally, rejection will create a quality order.

We also create the quality control work class within the path Warehousing/ Setup/ Work/ Work classes.

After the job class, we will create the job template to define the QA job from the Warehouse management/ Setup/ Work/ Work templates path.

As a first instance, we will associate a quality control step with our entry work. We must, then, create, between the actions of selecting and placing, an intermediate line that records the quality control in this way:

This way, we will assign our staff to the quality control work and associate it with receiving the purchase order. Then we need to create a new template that corresponds to the steps for quality control, like the following:

Here we then configure the pick and place pair for quality control.

Now we go to the location directives and will indicate the locations involved in this process. From the Warehouse management/ Configure/ Location directives route, we will create a new Quality control directive for warehouse 24:

We will indicate that when giving a rejection in quality control, it should go to the QA location in warehouse 24. If we look at the filter, we will see that we aim to place it in QA.

Once this setup is done, we will edit the menu items from the routing, Warehouse Management/ Setup/ Mobile Device/ Mobile Device Menu Items and modify the purchase order placement menu item by adding the working class of Quality control (QCheck) that we had created:

Doing a review:

1. We create the quality control template with the data to be carried out.

2. We create the work class for quality work.

3. We edit the receiving job template assigning it the quality control step, and we create the quality control job template.

4. We edited the purchase receiving location directive to point to the quality location.

5. Finally, we edit the menu of the mobile device to be able to control the jobs within the quality placement menu

When processing a purchase receipt, such as the following:

Of 3 product units, we will receive one accepted and one rejected.

We then go to our purchase order receipt and placement menu and enter the order information (order number, line, and quantity).

We process, and the quality control menu will appear.

There we will have two options. If we press confirm, the system will understand that there are no problems with the item, so that it will locate it in the location defined in the placement directive (in our example, Bulk).

But if instead of confirming, we use the menu of the three lines and click on reject:

Here two things will happen. The first is that that inventory will go directly to the quality location. (in the image, you can see QA).

Second, the quality order will be automatically created, associated with the quality control template we loaded in the first step.

These examples close the quality loop with QA and how Dynamics has added this functionality that was a bit missing before.

I hope they can be applied to future processes!!

See you in another post!!