I am stuck in the middle of meeting customer requirements and presenting commercial arguments (one in the same I hear you all say)!
I am producing a process flow for a production operation. The part is manufactured overseas and shipped to us here in the UK. We then ship this to the customer after a quality inspection and decant operation.
One of the commercial managers at my company wants me to add this quality inspection and decant to the process flow (for commercial reasons!). We would not normally do this, but is it commonplace? Should you include this outside operation on the process flow?
How would you represent this? You should, I guess indicate that the part has left the line, is shipped and then inspected & decanted, before being shipped again.
Can anyone offer advice?
Cheers,
I am producing a process flow for a production operation. The part is manufactured overseas and shipped to us here in the UK. We then ship this to the customer after a quality inspection and decant operation.
One of the commercial managers at my company wants me to add this quality inspection and decant to the process flow (for commercial reasons!). We would not normally do this, but is it commonplace? Should you include this outside operation on the process flow?
How would you represent this? You should, I guess indicate that the part has left the line, is shipped and then inspected & decanted, before being shipped again.
Can anyone offer advice?
Cheers,
