Viewing and executing inspection orders during production

If you have a license to the Cloud Apps family member designed for quality check, i.e. Inspect / Manager and Inspect / Operator, then you can also enjoy support for inspection during production (i.e. In production inspection). This means that you can combine the processing of an operation in Produce / Operator with executing an inspection order assigned to that operation in Inspect / Operator.

If a production order released in SAP Business One (or approved in Produce / Manager) meets the condition(s) specified in an active In production automation rule in Inspect / Manager, then inspection order(s) are created automatically for each route stage (=operation) in the production order that satisfies the rule's condition(s).

Now let us demonstrate this through the following examples.

If we have the below active In production automation rule in Inspect / Manager:

then any released production order for the customer C40000, Earthshaker Corporation will trigger the generation of one inspection order for each route stage (=operation) contained in the production order.

Consequently, the release (approval) of the following production order #198 for a 32GB Memory Server (item code P20002) to be manufactured for the customer C40000 will result in 3 inspection orders - one for each route stage (=operation) included: Mixing, Packaging and Quality Assurance.

Indeed, if you check the list of inspection orders in Inspect / Manager, then you will see three new inspection orders appear as soon as the above production order is released (approved), one for each operation belonging to production order #198. 

If we set up a different automation rule, e.g. one that checks for the operations Mixing and Packaging:

then the release of the production order #199 that has the same content as our earlier order #198 will generate two inspection orders: one for the operation Mixing and one for the operation Packaging.

Now let us check out the three operations for production order #199 in Produce / Operator. They look all the same in list view:

However, in detail view they are different. The detail view of operation Quality Assurance that has no inspection order assigned to it, contains resources and materials only:

The operations Mixing and Packaging have a block displaying the inspection step associated with them (inspection orders #53 and #54):

As soon as you click Start in Produce / Operator to start working on the operation, or the inspection manager releases the inspection order manually in Inspect / Manager, the View button in the inspection order block becomes active.

While the View button is inactive, hovering over it displays a tooltip that explains why you cannot click it:

If your card numbers in Produce / Operator and Inspect / Operator are the same, then clicking on the View button opens the detail view of the inspection order in Inspect / Operator, and the inspection results can be entered, as described in Inspection order lists.

If your card numbers in Produce / Operator and Inspect / Operator are different, then, after clicking View, you need to log into Inspect / Operator to start the inspection.

Once the inspection order has been completed, the result will appear in the operation's detail view in Produce / Operator, and the View button will get disabled.

The inspection order can be cancelled or finalized anytime by the inspection manager in Inspect / Manager.