Manufacturing › Inspection & Disposition
Usage Decisions
What an authorised person decided to do about material that failed: return it, rework it, scrap it, replace it, or accept it with an approved deviation — with the reason, the corrective action, and what it raised.
Where to find it
- Module: Manufacturing
- Group: Control
- Section: Inspection & Disposition
- Screen: Usage Decisions
Address in the console: /mfg/usage-decisions
List · 15 columns · 11 fields on its form · 3 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Decision | Code | decision_no |
| Inspection | Code | inspection_no |
| Stage | Status | stage |
| Item | Code | item_no |
| Lot | Text | lot_no |
| Disposition | Status | decision |
| Quantity | Number | quantity |
| Why | Text | reason |
| Corrective action | Text | corrective_action |
| Vendor action | Text | vendor_action |
| Re-inspect | Yes or no | requires_reinspection |
| Replacement PR | Code | requisition_no |
| Deviation approved by | Text | deviation_approved_by_name |
| Decided by | Text | decided_by_name |
| Decided | Date and time | decided_at |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspection required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Disposition required | Choice | accept, accept_with_deviation, rework, repair, return_to_vendor_repair, return_to_vendor_replace, alternate_material, previous_operation, scrap, other | |
| Quantity | Number | ||
| Why required | Long text | The record somebody relies on when the same defect turns up again. | |
| Comments | Long text | ||
| Corrective action | Long text | ||
| Vendor action | Long text | ||
| Re-inspect after the work | Yes or no | ||
| Return to operation | Number | ||
| Alternative material | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Deviation approved by | Choice | Looked up from existing records | Required when accepting material that failed. Somebody has to own that. |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.