Skip Lot Setup
Skip Lot Setup
Goal
To Achieve Skip Lot Inspection Functionality in Receiving Quality Inspection
Solution
It is normally assumed that the SKIP Lot Functionality applies to items which are
only Lot Controlled items. But its not the case. Skip lot functionality applies to all
the items being received in Oracle Purchasing.
Some Pointers to make sure that the Skip lot functionality works as intended.
(1) For "Skip Lot Inspection" in the Collection Plan the Transaction description
needs to be left blank. Whenever a collection plan is associated to a Skip Lot
Setup, it needn't necessarily have an Inspection / Receiving Transaction
associated to it. In fact, it is advisable not to associate a collection plan to an
Inspection /Receiveing Transaction or any transaction for that matter when it is
associated to a Skip Lot Setup. This is because the plan level transaction
association will never be honored when it is associated to a Skip Lot Setup. Now,
since the Transaction at the plan level will not be honored, the collection triggers
associated to that transaction as well will be ignored during a Skip Lot based
inspection.
The Skip Lot triggering is set up at the Skip Lot/Sampling Criteria screen and it
does not make use of the setup in Collection Plans Setup (Transaction Window).
In fact, you don't (and shouldn't) associate an Inspection Transaction to the plan
because the Skip Lot criteria takes care of the triggering.
(2) Receipts have to be created only after setting up the skip lot inspection. For
receipts created before the setup , the skip lot will not hold good.
(3) For Skip Lot Inspection the Receipts should be created one after the other
and not in BULK.
The receipt created should be processed completely before proceeding to create
another receipt.
Control" Check box should be checked for the Skip Lot Inspection to come into
effect in that organization.
(5) We have to make sure that the Profile Option RCV: Processing Mode to On-
line at site level and user level in System Administrator Profile options so that the
transactions get completed before proceeding to do another transaction..
If the Receiving transactions for a particular receipt is not completed and we go
ahead and raise a new Receipt then routing will be Inspection Required because
the skip lot will not skip unless the receipt which you inspected is Accepted.
So we need to make sure that the Receiving transaction is complete before we
go to make a New receipt.
The best way to ensure is to Change the profile option as given below.
(6) If we make a receipt which has to be inspected and we do not inspect the
same and the next receipt we are about to make should get skipped according to
skip plan, it will not get skipped as the skip plan will not get validated as the
earlier receipt has not been inspected and accepted. This receipt also will have
to be inspected.
(7) Number of Consecutive Lots accepted for Qualification mentioned in the Skip
Lot Process Setup is the number of accepted lots to be accepted for the Skip lot
process to become active. So for example if the Number of Consecutive lots
accepted for Qualification is 2 then we have to receive 2 accepted lots and then
only the Skip lot Process will become active.
(9) We can see the status of the Skip lot code by going to Quality -> Inquiries ->
Skip Lot Inquiry.
It will open in a self service page.
(10) When doing the receipt we can see the Routing in the same form. If Routing
is Inspection required after saving then we will have to do Inspection. If Routing
is Standard Receipt then we need not do Inspection and it will be accepted in the
Inventory i.e it will skipped. We need to make sure to see the Routing after we
have saved the Receipt and not when we are viewing it.
(11) We have to make sure that we Associate the Skip Lot Process Code to the
Item which has to be skipped in the Skip Lot/ Sampling Criteria Set up.
(12) If a Lot gets Rejected then the Skip Lot Process will Get halted and the
Inspection Stage will return to Qualification from Skipping. We will have to get the
qualification lots as per the condition mentioned in the Skipping parameters and
then only the Skip lot Process will come into Effect again.
(13) The Profile Option QA:PO Inspection should be set to Oracle Quality.
Step 1 . Create a Purchased Goods Item X in the Master Items form by choosing
the Purchased Item template.
Assign it to the required inventory Organization.
Navigation : Inventory -> Items -> Master Items
Step 5. Associate the Skip Lot Process Code "SL" to the Item Created X above in
the Skip Lot / Sampling Criteria Set up.
Mention the Item name and click on Skip Lot Association and give the Skip Lot
Process Code.
Step 6. Create a Purchase Order and approve it. Make sure that the Receiving
Controls in Purchase Order is Inspection Required.
Step 7. If we see in Quality Inquiries -> Skip lot Inquiries and query for the
organization and item we
will get the skip lot code associated. Click on the Skip Lot Code and we will get to
see the Inspection stage.
The Inspection stage at this point will be Qualification.
Now if we check in Quality Inquiries -> Skip lot Inquiries and query for the
organization and item
The Inspection stage will have changed from Qualification to Skipping
If the Rounds is given as 2 and no other sequence is mentioned then the system
will continue to
skip based on Skipping parameters.