Is it advisable to create different
material type for same material?
Purpose:
One material type would be with
quality active. The other would be without quality inspection.
In case of emergency, the without
quality material shall be issued to production.
What may be the disadvantages?
How can this situation be handled
without creating a different material type?
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Suggested Answer
What I could recommend is that instead of defining a separate
material for “emergency purpose”, I would suggest you should skip the inspection
by forcing completion on the characteristics and make a usage decision
as “accepted without inspection”, or something similar.
This way, there will be a record that the inspection lot
was closed without inspection. The exact circumstances which qualified
as emergency can be recorded in the long text for UD.
Alternatively, if it is a batch managed material, you
could try using the “restricted use” status.
Failing that, if you have the samples, you can still use
QA11 to post the material without making the actual usage decision.
When you finish the inspection, finish the lot normally. If it fails,
you will need to track
down where the material was used and bring it back.
