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For industries like semiconductors, batteries, and solar panels, ensuring incoming material quality is critical for production efficiency and product reliability. Without proper validation, expired or near-expiry materials can increase waste, cause production delays, and create compliance risks. To prevent these issues, manufacturers need an automated solution to track and validate incoming material shelf life at various stages of the supply chain.

This Work Smarter video explores how LineWorks SQM (Supplier Quality Management) enhances incoming material quality control by automating shelf-life validation, reducing material waste, and improving supply chain efficiency.

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Automated Incoming Material Quality Control with Shelf-Life Validation

For industries like semiconductors, batteries, and solar panels, ensuring incoming material quality is critical for production efficiency and product reliability. Without proper validation, expired or near-expiry materials can increase waste, cause production delays, and create compliance risks. To prevent these issues, manufacturers need an automated solution to track and validate incoming material shelf life at various stages of the supply chain.

This Work Smarter video explores how LineWorks SQM (Supplier Quality Management) enhances incoming material quality control by automating shelf-life validation, reducing material waste, and improving supply chain efficiency.

The Challenges: Ensuring Incoming Material Viability

Manufacturers face several key challenges in incoming material quality control, including:

  • Material Waste & Expired Stock: Without real-time tracking, expired materials may enter production, leading to waste and inefficiencies.
  • Manual Shelf-Life Inspections: Traditional quality checks rely on manual validation, which is time-consuming and prone to errors.
  • Logistics & Supply Chain Delays: Variations in transit times can reduce material shelf life, causing unexpected shortages.
  • FIFO Compliance Risks: Without proper inventory tracking, manufacturers may use older stock before fresher materials, leading to product inconsistencies.

The Solution: Automating Shelf-Life Checking with LineWorks SQM

LineWorks SQM delivers a fully automated approach to incoming material quality control, ensuring materials remain usable, compliant, and traceable throughout the supply chain.

With LineWorks SQM, manufacturers can:

  • Validate shelf life before shipment: Evaluates materials before supplier dispatch, considering forecasted logistics time.
  • Validate shelf life during receiving: Takes into account delays, required process time, and material consumption rates.  
  • Implement FIFO-Based Inventory Control: Ensures that the earliest received stock is used or shipped first, preventing material obsolescence, reducing waste, and maintaining freshness.
  • Track Remaining Shelf Life in Real-Time: Displays manufacturing date, eCoA submission timeline, and remaining usability.  

By integrating automatic shelf-life validation, manufacturers can eliminate manual tracking, optimize resource utilization, and prevent quality issues. 

More Details on LineWorks SQM

How Automated Shelf-Life Checking Reduces Waste & Improves Efficiency

Automated shelf-life management minimizes waste, prevents production disruptions, and enhances operational efficiency. LineWorks SQM ensures that only viable materials enter the production process, helping companies save resources and maintain high-quality standards.

Automating incoming material shelf-life checking capability with LineWorks SQM offers several key benefits:

  • Prevents Material Expiration: Ensures only fresh, usable materials enter production workflows.
  • Optimizes Resource Utilization: Prioritizes materials nearing expiration, reducing scrap and rework costs.
  • Improves Supply Chain Efficiency: Synchronizes material tracking with real-time consumption data.
  • Ensures Compliance & Traceability: Maintains full visibility from supplier shipment to final production use.

By leveraging LineWorks SQM, manufacturers gain greater control over material quality, reduce disruptions, and improve overall cost efficiency.

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