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Power BI for quality
Scrap, yield, and customer escapes in the Monday pack for US mid-market plants—not a plant-only report that never graduates upstairs.
When scrap is known on the floor and missing in the pack
Mid-market quality teams already count what they threw away. Finance still books a smoother yield story two weeks later. Rework hides as utilization. Customer escapes live in another system. The Monday pack that only shows “COGS” is a partial confession—and leaders learn that quality is a local hobby.
Alluvium helps quality, ops, and finance put scrap and yield into the same semantic model as production and the P&L. Named measures. Shared definitions. No invented case-study logos. Power BI that matches how US mid-market plants already run the meeting.
- First-pass yield, scrap cost, and rework in the same pack as throughput.
- Customer escapes that meet internal scrap—not two disconnected systems.
- One model quality and finance both consume, not an “ops only” side workspace.
- Links to manufacturing plant grain and finance sign-off where natural.
What we do for quality teams
Scrap that makes the pack
Yield and scrap cost that finance will defend—not a clipboard that never graduates. Read why manufacturing scrap never makes the pack.
Plant grain, Monday audience
Line and shift scrap that still reads upstairs—so quality is not only a huddle hobby. Related: Power BI for manufacturing.
Signals before another shift of scrap
Tuned models so defect and downtime insight arrives while you can still act. Background: slow BI costs manufacturing downtime.
Shared definitions with finance
Certified yield measures with a steward—usually operations with finance consulted—not a pasted screenshot.
QMS, MES, and ERP together
Practical extract patterns so scrap quantity, cost, and reason join production and COGS in one model.
Huddles over slide decks
Live pages for quality and ops review instead of stale screenshots. See when the weekly ops review is a slide deck.
Start with one painful quality report
The Power BI Quickstart rebuilds one high-impact quality report in two weeks—scrap summary, first-pass yield, rework pack, customer escapes, or similar. Flat fee $3,000. Discovery, automated report, training, and one week of support included.
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Broader plant KPIs: Power BI for manufacturing. The free Alluvium OEE Gauge shows Availability × Performance × Quality at a glance—the consulting work is the trusted measures behind it.
Quality Power BI FAQs
Is this plant quality or data quality?
Plant quality—scrap, yield, rework, and customer escapes. Dirty feeds show up as arguments too, but this landing is the pack that never saw the bin.
Can quality and finance share one model?
Yes. MES, QMS, and ERP should feed scrap quantity, cost, and reason into the same semantic model as production and COGS—not a side workspace named “ops only.”
Where does this sit relative to manufacturing Power BI?
Manufacturing covers plant grain and shared KPIs. Quality focuses on yield that graduates into the Monday pack finance will defend. They link naturally.
What does the Quickstart cost?
Flat fee $3,000 for one critical quality report rebuilt in two weeks—scrap summary, yield pack, escapes, or similar—with training and one week of support.
Next step
Put scrap in the Monday pack
Book a Session to name the quality report that never makes it upstairs. Or start with Power BI Quickstart—one painful report in two weeks, flat fee $3,000.