Creating Quality Orders

In IAQ, a quality order can be created automatically or manually. Quality orders are automatically created when you receive items from a supplier and perform the receipt transaction or when you receive a production order linked to a customer order. See Creating a Quality Order from a Receipt Transaction.

You can manually create a quality order for an item lot in inventory or for an item lot in inventory that is associated with a sales order. See Manually Creating a Quality Order.

Quality orders are created automatically by supplier or production receipt transactions for item lots that are linked to at least one released test specification. For the quality order to be created, the test specification must have at least one attribute. Optionally, it may have additional lot or sublot level profile attributes.

A quality order contains test records for linked test specifications with a Released status. A quality order also contains a complete list of the attribute specifications, values, and results that apply to the order:

• Any non-test attribute specifications, values, and results for attributes defined on attribute profiles for characteristics such as supplier lot number, harvest date, and country of origin

Quality Order Attributes shows how the system processes lots and quality orders following a purchase order. After the receipt of the purchase order, the system creates a lot master, generic to that item type, with associated lot attributes. It also creates a quality order with attributes specific to a test specification.

To create a quality order from a receipt transaction, see Creating Orders From Receipt Transactions.

IAQ allows you to manually create quality orders for the following business cases:

• Verifying the conformance for an item lot, prior to shipment for a sales order or customer scheduled order line.

Follow these steps to manually create a quality order:

1 Navigate to the correct quality order collection (inventory or sales). See Navigating to Quality Order Collections.

2 Click the Create button in the top-level browse. A blank quality order opens.

3 Add the item lot to the order by entering the relevant information in the Item, Site, Lot, and Sublot fields. For detailed field definitions, see Entering Values in Lot Attribute Orders.

Note: To add an item to an order, the item lot must be in inventory

4 When the item is added to the order, the associated test records and attributes are added to the order.

5 If necessary, add additional test records to the quality order. See Adding Test Records to Quality Orders.

Follow these steps to add a test record to a quality order:

1 Navigate to the correct quality order collection (inventory, purchasing, sales, or production). See Navigating to Quality Order Collections.

3 To add a test record, click Create on the Quality Order Test Records tab. Enter the test record in the Test field.