Getting Started With PeopleSoft Quality

This chapter provides an overview of PeopleSoft Quality business processes and discusses:

PeopleSoft Quality integrations.
PeopleSoft Quality implementation.

PeopleSoft Quality Business Processes

The PeopleSoft Quality business processes are:

Create quality business units.
Create quality methods and procedures.
Develop quality functions.
Develop measurement plans.
Develop control plans.
Collect quality data.
View and analyze quality data.
(Optional) Use the PeopleSoft Quality Application Client.
Integrate with third-party and other PeopleSoft applications.

Implementing PeopleSoft Quality for the organization involves designing the system’s business structure, then putting that structure in place.

We discuss these business processes in the business process chapters in this PeopleBook.

PeopleSoft Quality Integrations

PeopleSoft Quality integrates with the following PeopleSoft applications and with third-party applications:

PeopleSoft Purchasing.
PeopleSoft Inventory.
PeopleSoft Manufacturing.
Third-Party applications.

PeopleSoft Purchasing

When you inspect material received against a purchase order, you can use PeopleSoft Purchasing to initiate a quality data-entry session automatically in PeopleSoft Quality.

See Integrating With PeopleSoft Purchasing.

PeopleSoft Inventory

When material is returned on an return material authorization (RMA) in PeopleSoft Inventory, you can use PeopleSoft Quality to enter detailed quality information against the material received. After the material is received on an RMA, the system creates a quality data-entry session.

See Integrating With PeopleSoft Inventory.

PeopleSoft Manufacturing

When recording operation completions and scrap information against a production ID or schedule for any production type (production, rework, or teardown) using PeopleSoft Manufacturing, you can immediately initiate a data-entry session in PeopleSoft Quality.

See Integrating With PeopleSoft Manufacturing.

Third-Party Applications

Many companies implementing manufacturing systems use automated collection devices or systems to assist in quality inspection and control. Through the use of the PeopleSoft Application Messaging technology, you can pass quality information collected from these devices to PeopleSoft Quality.

The third-party system passes quality control information to PeopleSoft Quality using the Quality_Data_Submit application message.

See Integrating With Third-Party Applications.

PeopleSoft Quality Implementation

PeopleSoft Setup Manager enables you to review a list of setup tasks for the organization for the products that you are implementing. The setup tasks include the components that you must set up, listed in the order in which you must enter data into the component tables, and links to the corresponding PeopleBook documentation.

Other Sources of Information

In the planning phase of the implementation, take advantage of all PeopleSoft sources of information, including the installation guides, table-loading sequences, data models, and business process maps. A complete list of these resources appears in the preface in the PeopleSoft Enterprise Application Fundamentals PeopleBook, with information about where to find the most current version of each.