Hi Norah,

These fields are amplifying information fields that can be used to track informational details about the supplier.  They are separated into 4 sections depending on the regulatory requirements you might want to track for a supplier.

Quality - we use this to track whether the supplier is ISO accredited, if they are accredited when does their accreditation expire and whether they are approved as a supplier fully or conditionally or not at all.

Environment - this could be used if necessary to track similar requirements for suppliers related to environmental compliance whether that be for hazardous material or clean energy compliance or really a variety of things.

Code of Conduct - This might be to track an internal requirement to ensure the supplier adheres to a particular set of behaviors that are decided by the customer (you).

Credit - this is just a quick note for credit approval if you aren’t using the broader embedded credit approval process for suppliers.

The QSL field under quality has a list of values that can be populated in basic data to try and force some uniformity of data in this area, but that is the extent of control really.

All of these boxes, fields, dates and notes are optional as far as mainstream IFS processes are concerned, meaning they don’t enable or stop anything from happening.  They can be used as much or as little as needed depending on your process requirements.  In previous versions, it was relatively easy to setup custom searches for users to be able to look up a Approved suppliers or suppliers with accreditation that is coming due.  But with Cloud and the lack of some SQL based custom search capability makes this a bit more difficult, but still possible with Quick Reports rather than supplier based searches.

Shawn

In Addition to the above, information in Quality section may be used for further validations. It is possible to control ordering parts from suppliers based on the quality requirements. If the quality requirement for the part is higher than the quality requirement of the supplier, the orders need to be manually authorized before releasing the orders.

Supplier Quality System Levels (QSL) can be defined for suppliers in Supplier > Purchase tab (shown above) and then can be defined for each Part as follows.

Then after when a Purchase Requisition or Purchase Order is released, the application validates the SQL requirements.

If (QSL Ranking for a purchase part < QSL ranking for the supplier) then when Releasing a PR or PO manual authorization is required. Otherwise no manual authorization is required.

QSL and QSL Ranking can be designed in  QSL page (Procurement > Procurement Basic Data > Quality System Level).

Hope this gives more insight !

Thank you very much!