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NCREPORT: Nonconformity

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A nonconformity or incident report for tracking deviations from policies, procedures, standards, or customer requirements with root cause analysis and corrective actions.

NCREPORT: Nonconformity

A nonconformity or incident report for tracking deviations from policies, procedures, standards, or customer requirements with root cause analysis and corrective actions.

Default definition. This article describes the default NCREPORT definition shipped with DemandFlow. Administrators can add, remove, rename, or re-type fields, change which ones are required, and alter the layout from the Definitions screen in Settings. Your tenant's current schema may differ from what is shown here. To read the current definition at any time, GET the DEFINITION object whose id matches NCREPORT.

Entity properties

PropertyValue
Entity codeNCREPORT
Display nameNonconformity
PluralNonconformities
Level90020

Use cases

NCREPORT is the general-purpose nonconformity and incident register required by ISO 9001 clause 10. 2 and ISO 27001 clause A. 16.

Fields

Nonconformity Details

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
nametextYesTitle
categoryenumYesCategory Valid ids: quality (Quality Nonconformity), security (Security Incident), customerComplaint (Customer Complaint), processDeviation (Process Deviation), regulatory (Regulatory Non-compliance), supplierNC (Supplier Nonconformity), dataBreach (Data Breach), healthSafety (Health & Safety), environmental (Environmental), other (Other).
severityenumYesSeverity Valid ids: critical (Critical), major (Major), minor (Minor), observation (Observation).
statusenumYesStatus Valid ids: reported (Reported), investigating (Investigating), actionRequired (Action Required), inProgress (In Progress), resolved (Resolved), closed (Closed).
sourceenumSource / How Detected Valid ids: internalAudit (Internal Audit), externalAudit (External Audit), customerFeedback (Customer Feedback), processMonitoring (Process Monitoring), staffReport (Staff Report), managementReview (Management Review), supplierIssue (Supplier Issue), regulatoryBody (Regulatory Body), other (Other).

Dates & People

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
occurredDatedateYesDate Occurred
discoveredDatedateDate Discovered
reportedByreference → userYesReported By
assignedToreference → userAssigned To
departmenttextDepartment / Area
isoClausetextISO Clause Reference

Description

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
descriptiontext (multi-line)YesDescription of Nonconformity

Impact Assessment

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
impactAreasmultiselectImpact Areas
businessImpacttext (multi-line)Business Impact Description
estimatedCostnumberEstimated Cost Impact
actualCostnumberActual Cost Impact

Breach Notification (Data/Security)

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
notifiableBreachbooleanNotifiable breach (ICO/Regulator)
notificationDeadlinedatetime72 hours from discovery for GDPR breaches
notificationDatedatetimeDate Notified
regulatorReferencetextRegulator Reference

Root Cause Analysis

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
immediateActionstext (multi-line)What was done immediately to contain the issue
rootCausetext (multi-line)Root Cause
contributingFactorstext (multi-line)Contributing Factors

Resolution

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
resolutiontext (multi-line)Resolution Summary
resolvedDatedateResolved Date
closedDatedateClosed Date
lessonsLearnedtext (multi-line)Lessons Learned

Documents

FieldTypeRequiredNotes
filefile

Activity. Activity timeline panel attached.

Relationships

  • Related lists: AUDITACTION (format SUB|NCR).

Creating a Nonconformity via the API

POST /v1/objects
Authorization: Bearer <your-pat>
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "entity":   "NCREPORT",
  "level":    90020,
  "comboKey": "SUB:<your-sub-id>|ENT:",
  "name": "Example",
  "category": "quality",
  "severity": "critical",
  "status": "reported"
}

Listing Nonconformities records

# All nonconformities in your tenant
GET /v1/entities/NCREPORT/SUB

See also

ncreportnonconformitynonconformitiesentity reference

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