Quality order processing and inquiry-In the Quality Order Form, the number of decimal places for a result is driven by the hardcoding in the results cell. Decimal place rounding is determined by the test instrument, however after the rounding has occurred to the required precision, extra default zeros are added after the last digit that was rounded. We have found the cell is hard coded to 4Decimal Places. This is considered a compliance issue as the result appears to be accurate to 4 decimal places when in fact it may only be accurate to 1,2 or 3 DPs. We would like the decimal places in the result cells to be determined by the tests and/or test instruments.

Also noted during our UAT, any reset result will automatically deliver 0.0000 despite no result be entered. Some of our tests may have zero values which are fails and can be misinterpreted as having a valid result entered if the cell has been reset and the 0.000 appears. Again, this is considered a compliance issue.

An improvement to the designed is also suggested for Tests. Presently it is not possible to have the same test name with different units or decimal places. For example, a common test for us would be a Vitamin C content, this test can appear in a number of products with each product requiring different units and different decimal precisions. One product result may express Vitamin C content mg/mL while another in %. This requires two tests to be set up to accommodate the differing units. When Vitamin C appears in 20 or so products and all have differing units and decimial place precision it becomes hard to manage. Our suggestion would be to have the flexibility of the one test name being able to accommodate multiple units and decimal places. When a test group containing for example the Vitamin C content test, units and DPs can be assigned independently from the test name.