Quality Coordinator.

ABS Quality Evaluations.

Qualified Individual (OPA 90)

Quintuple Screw

Quality Steering Committee.

A data element, which identifies or defines a related element, set of elements or a segment. The qualifier contains a code from a list of approved codes.

Conformance to requirements or fitness for use. Quality can be defined through five principal approaches: 1) Transcendent quality is an ideal, a condition of excellence. 2) Product-based quality is based on a product attribute. 3) User-based quality is fitness for use. 4) Manufacturing-based quality is conformance to requirements. 5) Value-based quality is the degree of excellence to an acceptable price. Also, quality has two major components: a)

In quality management, a small group of people who normally work as a unit and meet frequently to uncover and solve problems concerning the quality of items produced, process capability, or process control. Also see: Small Group Improvement Activity.

The management function that attempts to ensure that the goods or services in a firm manufacturers or purchases meet the product or service specifications.

A structured method for translating user requirements into detailed design specifications using a continual stream of 'what-how' matrices. QFD links the needs of the customer (end user) with design, development, engineering, manufacturing, and service functions. It helps organizations seek out both spoken and unspoken needs, translate these into actions and designs, and focus various business functions toward achieving this common goal.

See Fixed Reorder Quantity Inventory Model

Stock being withheld from normal distribution due to product recall, inadequate documentation, contamination or other good reason.

A strategy widely adopted by general merchandise and soft lines retailers and manufacturers to reduce retail out-of-stocks, forced markdowns and operating expenses. These goals are accomplished through shipping accuracy and reduced response time. QR is a partnership strategy in which suppliers and retailers work together to respond more rapidly to the consumer by sharing point-of-sale scan data, enabling both to forecast replenishment needs. 2. A consumer-driven system of replenishment in which high-quality products and accurate information flow through a paperless system between all distribution points from the manufacturing line to the retail checkout counter. Distributors, carriers and suppliers act as trading partners and focus on improving the total supply system.

A system of linking final retail sales with production and shipping schedules back through the chain of supply, employs point-of-sale scanning and electronic data interchange, and may use direct shipment from a factory to a retailer.