Specifications

A specification template defines generic specifications that are used when creating product or brand specifications. Specification templates can define only the analytes (without any specification limits) or full specification limits for the analyte values: minimum, lower warning, upper warning, maximum, and target. For each product or brand, contract product, quota or despatch order, individual analytes can be added to the specification and the specification limits can be edited.

The specification allows for a comparison and tracking of the expected quality and actual quality.

Each product or brand can have versions of quality specifications that can be applied from a defined date. These quality specifications can be inherited from a selected specification template. Any reports or interfaces that check the current quality against the product or brand specifications will use the specification version for the applicable date period.

A specification template must belong to a specification template category or sub-category.