3 replies to this topic

[Lydz]

Hi all,

 

I work for a food manufacturer working towards HACCP certification and looking to formalise our incoming goods inspection process for raw materials and packaging.

Planned inspection criteria include:

1. Correct quantity received vs. purchase order
2. Correct raw material / product identity
3. Damage to product, packaging, or container
4. Vehicle cleanliness and signs of pest activity
5. Correct labelling and documentation (CoA, delivery docket)

Our constraint is that our MRP system doesn't support adding an inspection module, and we'd like to avoid standalone paper forms that won't realistically be maintained.

How does your facility handle delivery inspections without dedicated software support? Particularly interested in lightweight solutions or how others have integrated this into existing systems.

Context: all raw materials received ambient (no temperature checks required), and all deliveries are logged in our MRP system.

Thanks in advance.

[GMO]

If your MRP system doesn't support it, then you're going to be stuck with either a new system, paper or recording on excel. I don't like the latter because of record keeping the person who actually did the test recorded the results.

 

Have you gone back to your MRP provider to see if it's possible but just a cost to add an inspection module? Otherwise it will be a standalone system of some kind I'm afraid.

[TimG]

You mentioned you wanted to avoid standalone new paperwork, but what about your existing receiver paperwork? Our inspection documentation is on the same sheet as our weight/receiver paperwork. What you listed in your post is not going to take up much room on a page at all...

[jfrey123]

Receiving inspections have been manual on paper forms everywhere I've worked.  I envy people who have digital programs for this, especially if you have sufficient IT to maintain them lol.

 

To keep a paper system maintained, you add reviewing the receiving inspections to a weekly or monthly internal audit.