steve100 said:
I have more more question.....in the receiving process lets say one line item is short, over, or the wrong product. Are these handled as Non-Conforming material? Thanks for everyones help.
There's sometimes a difference between a nonconforming "thing" and a nonconforming
condition. In the case of a "bad" shipment (too many, too few, too late, too early, etc.) there is indeed a nonconforming condition, but not a nonconforming, palpable
thing.
Now. Sometimes a nonconforming condition can be as harmful as a nonconforming thing. For instance, if you need 1000 things to satisfy a customer order, and your supplier delivers only 995, or delivers 1000 but too late for you to make your customer's delivery date, the effect is the same as if your supplier had sent 1000 parts with 5 of them being unuseable.
So whether or not nonconforming conditions should be treated the same as nonconforming "things" should depend on the potential effect in most cases.