Common Unnecessary Costs: Inspection

The incoming inspection process incurs additional costs. The inspection department ordinarily inspects each shipment received. Quality inspectors are well paid professionals, and each inspection can take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours depending on the complexity of the part. Assuming that a normal part takes about an hour, the average cost could run $80-100. Add to that cost the time the parts are in inventory waiting to be inspected which could be a day or a week. That represents additional working capital wasted.

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