The Monday Board is a one-page checklist of eight actions, one for each step a bad supplier lot goes through. Each uses records you already have and finds a real gap if one exists. Print it, pin it up and tick them off.
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01 · The receiving inspection report
Pull your last three receiving reports.
Check that sample size and method are on each.
Chapter 1: The Lot Arrives02 · The red tag log and quality alert
Match every red tag in the building to a line on the red tag log.
Chapter 2: Contain It03 · The deviation waiver
Check that every open deviation waiver has a quantity, a condition, an approver and an end date.
Chapter 3: Decide and Tell04 · The SCAR
Find any supplier corrective action with no due date or past its date.
Reset it in writing.
Chapter 4: Ask for the Fix05 · The supplier 8D
Read the last supplier response you accepted.
If it stops at retraining, ask for the next why.
Chapter 5: Find the Cause06 · The verification
Reopen any supplier corrective action that closed without verification from your own receiving data.
Chapter 6: Prove the Fix07 · The part history and scorecard
Check that your last bad lot is in both the part history and the scorecard.
Chapter 7: Update the Record08 · The supplier audit
Write three audit questions from your last SCAR's cause.
Book the visit.
Chapter 8: Audit the Source
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Based on the made-up lot 55102 in One Bad Lot. The Supplier Trail. The supplier, part, lot and people in this book are made up. Use your own forms; every check works with whatever records you already keep.