For any organization to survive and succeed, the pivotal key is to have a quality product in the market. Dynamics 365 for F&O provides tools that can help you automate everything from design to pre-production to production to, finally, post-production activities. It helps in effectively managing business performance via collecting, controlling, and analyzing the quality system data – no matter where the goods are – dispatch, warehouse, or purchase.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations offers a set of processes around quality control and quality management. With Quality Management, primarily, nonconformities are dealt with. In addition, when a quality standard is violated, it helps deploy corrective measures. On the other hand, Quality Control deals with tests, specifications, and standards, telling you what to test and when and how to test it.
Read this entire blog to unveil the benefits of Quality Control in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations. Also know about the key aspects and features of D365 Quality Control and how it can transform your business landscape.
The Benefits of Quality Control for Your Organization
Through Quality Control, you can ensure that you only use goods of uncompromised quality – the kind that meets your needs and demands – rather than goods with non-conformity. Here are a few ways in which Quality Control can benefit your organization:
- You should be able to manage turnaround times, schedule various tasks to make problems right and further, prevent any issues from recurring.
- Identifying faults across warehousing, production, and dispatching shouldn’t be a problem.
- You can make use of historical data to review how effective the previous quality measures had been and consequently determine what appropriate measures you should use in the future.
- You can also have problems tracked according to their type and identify the apt long-term or short-term solutions.
- Once you know you have been delivering products of the finest quality to your clients, you can ensure customer satisfaction and confidently go on improving the brand that your products represent!
Critical Aspects of Quality Management in Dynamics 365 F&O
1. Robust Inspection Processes
- Inspection Criteria: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations enables you to define inspection criteria to ensure that your products have pre-defined quality standards. This includes inspection criteria like attributes and specifications.
- Inspection Plans: Your team members can create precise inspection plans that contain the criteria and steps for inspecting products at different stages of production and the procurement process.
2. Quality Orders
- Quality Order Creation: Your resources can create quality orders, to begin with the inspection process for various products or particular batches.
- Inspection Result: Inspection results can be easily captured using quality orders. This includes various parameters like the product's status, pass/fail test, measurements, etc.
3. Non-Conformance Management
- Recording Non-Conformance: In case your product does not meet certain quality standards, Dynamics 365 F&O enables you to record non-conformance issues.
- Non-Conformance Workflow: After recording non-conformance issues, you can implement robust workflows to manage non-conformance. This contains various processes like investigation, corrective action, and disposition of the products.
4. CAPA (Corrective & Preventive Actions)
- Take Correct Actions: Within Dynamics 365 F&O, users can take corrective actions in case any products are identified under poor-quality issues.
- Take Preventive Actions: Users can also identify and address the root cause of the product’s quality issue and implement preventive actions. They can also prevent the recurrence of such issues in the future.
5. Supplier Quality Management
- Track Supplier Performance: Easily Monitor and track suppliers’ performance on the basis of certain quality metrics.
- Supplier Audits: Users can conduct supplier audits within Dynamics 365 F&O. This ensures that material/product suppliers can strictly adhere to quality standards and any type of contractual agreements.
6. Audit Trails
- Conduct Audit Trails: Within Dynamics 365 F&O, your enterprise can maintain an audit trail of various quality-related activities. This helps users get real-time visibility into approvals, changes, and inspection results.
- Traceability: Easily track the movement of raw materials and products throughout your entire supply chain.
7. Seamless Integration with Manufacturing
- Shop Floor Quality Control: To ensure your products meet high quality standards, you can simply implement quality control processes on the shop floor.
- Change Management: Dynamics 365 F&O enables you to seamlessly integrate quality management with your engineering change processes. You can easily handle changes and updates that may affect your product quality.
8. Maintain Regulatory Compliance
- Manage Compliance: Dynamics 365 F&O offers various features that can help your company comply with specific industry standards and regulations.
- Certifications Reporting: Easily create certificates and reports that reflect your company’s adherence to regulatory requirements.
9. Analytics and Reporting
- Power BI Integration: Dynamics 365 F&O enables you to leverage Power BI to get advanced analytics and reports of quality metrics.
- KPIs: Quickly define and track key performance indicators to maintain high quality standards for future products.
10. Quick Mobile Access
- Mobile Quality Inspections: Your resources can also conduct quality inspections on their mobile devices. This allows inspectors to gain real-time data about their on-field products or their shop floor.
Final Word
Quality Control in Dynamics 365 for F&O helps you meet a wide range of quality requirements across your supply chain! It allows you to automatically begin a quality control process based upon specific predefined criteria, specify all the resources that an inspection operation would require, use item sampling to determine the amount of current physical inventory that must be inspected, and more.
By leveraging the above-mentioned Quality Management features within Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, businesses can create and consistently maintain high quality standards for their products. They can also ensure strict compliance with regulatory standards and enhance their entire quality management processes. Their team can regularly update and modify their quality management processes based on advanced analytics and insights related to product quality.
To know more about why you should leverage Quality Control in Dynamics 365 for F&O, and how it can help optimize the quality of your products, write to us at sales@dynatechconsultancy.com, and our certified professionals will love to answer all your questions and queries!