What can I say, if you lump together purchasing, design, manufacturing ,quality and even pricing as all being CM, than we must be speaking of two different things.
All the factors you have mentioned are very important, however they concern 5-10 different disciplines (depending on company size) very few of which are CM issues
My view is more "limited" and I subscribe to CM being "just" as defined in ISO10007, ANSI/EIA-649 and MIL-STD-973 do, none of which deal with the crimping tools or wire gages....
Btw, whom are you aluding to as thinkig CM is clerk's job?
Or do you consider writing a CM procedure being a clerk's job?
I thik we must have scared off our fellow cover Koivisto with our argument.
All I meant was to tell him that a procedure was a more effective way than a flowchart, to document the way they control design changes (if they design at all, they are more likely just contract manufacturer) and how they assure the product configuration matches the documentation. IN A NUTSHELL THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO CM IN THIS CASE
Yes they also need a route card, workmanship standards and more but that has nothing to do with CM, EXCEPT THAT THEY NEED TO BE CONTROLLED