Whose job? What department schedules a PSI (pre shipment inspection)?

hogheavenfarm

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Hello again all,

Just had an annoying question keep coming up, What department schedules a PSI (pre shipment inspection)? Seems like everyone waits around thinking someone else will do it, and it never gets done. In my mind, this would be a shipping function, as the parts and paperwork need to be complete for the inpection, including all the shipping docs, but some people believe QA should schedule it. Any thoughts on this?
 
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ScottK

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We don't schedule them, per se.
But it is shipping's responsibility to notify QC when all parts and paperwork are ready to be packaged up shipped and it's up to QC to get it done in time for shipping to box it up and get it on the UPS truck.

So, short answer, I agree with you. Shipping's responsibility.
 

somashekar

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Hello again all,

Just had an annoying question keep coming up, What department schedules a PSI (pre shipment inspection)? Seems like everyone waits around thinking someone else will do it, and it never gets done. In my mind, this would be a shipping function, as the parts and paperwork need to be complete for the inpection, including all the shipping docs, but some people believe QA should schedule it. Any thoughts on this?
I am sure all fingers will point to QA function when a problem gets reported. So must be the case in PSI who do not want to own responsibility and so want to shift it across. Taking an example from where I come, we have two stages. One is the initial packaging which has placement of all contents like the product, powersupply, accessories and information booklet, and finish with the pack labelling. This is then placed in master carton or shipping carton and handed over to the warehouse with the documents. This is covered as a part of our production router card (PSI to warehouse) and the QA function sign of this after comlpetion. The finished goods warehouse owns the next responsibility of sealing the master carton, palletizing, customer address labelling and other statutory paperwork based on the invoice received and they maintain a despatch checklist to track their activity (PSI to customer). This is working well for us. Perhaps you have to define the work based on your type of product and your packaging / shipping requirements ...
 

hogheavenfarm

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Thanks all, just wanted to know if my brain was scrambled. It just made sense to me that other things must be prepared, along with inspection reports of course, and since I am not part of the shipping schedule loop, how could I schedule this? Currently, I notify the shipping and production manager when I am done with my end, and leave the dates and scheduling up to them. Now that we are late of course, it seems I was supposed to perform this function as well, but I am used to this. Us quality guys (and gals) have to have thick skin sometimes. Just wondered what other places do.
Thanks Covers!
 

hogheavenfarm

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No Scott , not a documented process. We dont do many of them, usually just for new customers who require it for a certain time period, normally 6 months if no problems turn up. While that sounds contradictory, we only supply a handful of customers in this industry, so we havent encountered it as an ongoing process, but I think I will procedurize it. Great point, thanks.:agree:
 

ScottK

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No Scott , not a documented process. We dont do many of them, usually just for new customers who require it for a certain time period, normally 6 months if no problems turn up. While that sounds contradictory, we only supply a handful of customers in this industry, so we havent encountered it as an ongoing process, but I think I will procedurize it. Great point, thanks.:agree:
even if it's just a flow chart of the overall chain of custody, it will define what goes where when.
good luck
 
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