As your team is manufacturing items, it is inevitable that situations in which you need to address the quality of the product will arise. This could be because you received raw materials that were not adequate, because there is a problem in the process, or it could be something that needs more investigation to determine why a product is not meeting your quality expectations. Regardless of the reason why, Odoo's Quality application can help you better manage quality in your manufacturing operations.

Click the Quality icon from the main Enterprise menu to view the Quality dashboard, as follows:

Like the Maintenance application, the Quality application breaks quality alerts down into different teams. In the dashboard, you can see there is currently one quality team defined, the Main Quality Team:

While we don't have any active quality alerts, let's go ahead and click on the button so we can see the stages that have been set up by default to manage our quality alerts:

As you can see, PLM, Maintenance, and Quality are all designed in a similar way. As always, we can click Create to enter a Quality Alert, as shown in the following screenshot:

Here, you can describe the product and any variants, as well as which lot the product was in, in case that the quality issue is to do with a specific lot. Items that you specify in Corrective Actions are automatically presented when someone begins a manufacturing order. This makes it easy to quickly alert someone in manufacturing when there is a quality issue, and provides them with clear instructions on what they need to do to verify, or if necessary fix, the product quality.