Quality Systems: the Cost of Finding a Defect Late
You take one corduroy skirt order with one fault in it, and you price that fault at every gate where it could have been caught: on the roll, at the cutting table, inline, at the end of the line, and at the buyer's distribution centre. You will see why doubling the inspectors changes nothing about what the line makes, and why two complaints that look unrelated usually come from one cause.
Published by Merchandising Academy · First lesson free to read
Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can run a pre-shipment AQL inspection with the plan in front of you, defend a defect classification to a third-party inspector, and make a costed, defensible ship-or-hold call on a lot that has failed.
Who it is for
Factory, supplier, brand and buying-office teams.
What you will produce
You take away three things you can use at work. You build a cost-of-defect ladder for one of your own styles, priced gate by gate. You turn an end-of-line defect log into three named fixes, each with a detection-lag figure behind it. And you rewrite a quality-notes page from adjectives into measurable limits and sealed limit samples, ready for a pre-production meeting.
Learning format
3 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.