Quality orders direct the completion of testing and inspection of an item lot. Quality orders can be used to test, retest, inspect, re-inspect, or audit an item lot to confirm its conformance to one or more test specifications.

The system automatically creates quality orders for inventory received from suppliers, from work order production, and from advanced repetitive production. Quality orders can also be created manually for an existing material lot to capture test result records and to determine whether a material lot conforms to its requirements.

If there are customer-specific requirements for a customer, a sales order, or a customer scheduled order line, a quality order can be created for the order line before shipment to determine whether an inventory lot conforms to both the customer specifications and internal specifications. When a quality order is created for an inventory lot and a customer order line before shipment, the values for attribute specifications defined for a customer, for a sales order, or for a scheduled order are captured together with test result records.