Entering Quality Results: Receiving Transfers and Deliveries

This section describes how you can use Oracle Quality for Receiving Transfers or Receiving Deliveries.

If Oracle Quality is installed and at least one collection plan that is associated with the Receiving transaction exists, the Enter Quality Results Tools menu option and the Quality button are enabled and quality results can be entered.

Warning: The Tools menu option is enabled even if, based upon the transaction information entered, the collection triggers conditions for this collection plan are not met.

In fact, based upon the receiving transaction entered, quality results entry may be required. See: Mandatory Data Collection.

Background data collection occurs automatically if valid background collection plans are found when you save receiving transactions.

Cascade, Express, and Lot and Serial Functions

The Cascade function, which distributes a receiving transaction quantity to multiple lines, is compatible with Oracle Quality. Quality enforces quality data collection as you enter each line. See: Cascading Receipts and Receiving Transactions

To save Receiving Transactions quickly and automatically with a minimal amount of data entry, you can choose the Express button to put Oracle Purchasing in Express mode. However, when you are in Express mode, Oracle Purchasing prevents you from manually entering data for those collection elements that you have defined as mandatory in Oracle Quality. For this reason, choosing the Express button disables the toolbar's Quality button, as well as the Enter Quality Results Tools menu option.

Lot and serial entry quality data collection is not enabled in this release.

Prerequisites

arrow icon   To enter receiving quality data for receiving transactions:

  1. Before saving your work, choose Enter Quality Results from the Tools menu or choose the Quality button. The Find Collection Plans window appears.

    Attention: If you attempt to save a receiving transaction and the system finds one or more mandatory collection plans, you must enter quality results before proceeding.

  2. Navigate to the Enter Quality Results window. The first applicable plan will appear by default.

  3. Select a collection plan.

    To switch to another plan, choose one from the selections in the List of Values (LOV). You can select any collection plan that is associated with and enabled for the Receiving Transaction collection transaction.

arrow icon   To find and assign specifications:

If the selected collection plan is associated with a supplier or customer specification type, the Find Specifications window automatically appears. If the selected collection plan is associated with an item specification type, the system searches for a specification defined for that item. If a valid item specification cannot be found, the system searches for a specification based on the item's category. The default category set you defined using the QA:Quality Category Set profile option is used to determine the item category. See: QA:Quality Category Set.

If the collection plan is not associated with a specification type, you can invoke the Find Specifications window using the Find Specs button. See: Finding Specifications During Transactional Data Collection.

The Enter Quality Results window reappears after you select a specification or cancel selection.

arrow icon   To enter quality results:

  1. In the Results region of the Quality Results window, enter one or more results records.

    If the collection plan selected requires mandatory data collection, you must enter quality results. You cannot save the receiving transaction line until you do so. If data collection is not mandatory, you can skip quality results entry.

    Attention: The Prompts entered when defining the collection elements are displayed as the column headings.

    You must enter results values for mandatory collection plan elements.

  2. Save your work. See: Saving Changes.

    If you save your work, the current results are cleared and the Collection Number counter is incremented. You can continue to enter results for the same collection plan and, if assigned, specification.

arrow icon   To view collection plan or specification attachments while entering quality data:

See: Viewing Attachments Associated with Quality Results.

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