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Quality Orders for Make-to-Order Production
For make-to-order (MTO) production methods, IAQ provides functions that enable you to:
• Manage production to support customer MTO requirements.
• Assure quality to MTO requirements.
• Manage materials to MTO requirements.
The overall challenges of MTO production environments include the difficulty of meeting the unique specifications of customers. The quality control functionality in IAQ offers options to:
• Capture customer order specifications.
• Communicate customer specifications to production and quality.
• Keep current with changes to customer requirements and specifications.
• Include customer specifications together with production and quality processes.
To manage quality orders and customer requirements in an MTO environment, use the item customer, SO line, and work order (or CUM order) profiles. Three groups of profiles assist you in managing customer requirements:
• Item Customer Profile. Manage specifications unique to a customer.
• SO Line Profile. Manage specifications unique to a sales transaction.
• Work Order and CUM Order Profiles. Manage specifications unique to production orders.

Manage Orders and Customer Requirements
The fundamental tasks for an MTO environment are the following:
• Capture and document customer requirements for an order line.
• Maintain a production order with requirements for a customer order line.
• Verify quality of production quantities to test specifications and customer specifications.
• Monitor conformance of inspected inventory to customer order line specifications.