About system-generated quality orders

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Applies To: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Feature Pack, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

When you set up a quality association, the system can generate quality orders for various business processes, events, and conditions. The quality association can cover a specific item, a specific group of items, or all items. Quality associations are created in the Quality associations form.

Working with quality associations

The business process that uses a quality association can be related to purchase orders, sales orders, or production orders.

Tip

In the Quality associations form, the business process is referred to as the reference type.

Each quality association record defines the set of tests, the acceptable quality level (AQL), and the sampling plan that applies to the quality orders that are generated. A quality association record must be defined for each variation in a business process. For example, you can set up a quality association that generates a quality order either before or after a packing slip is posted.

Note

Inventory quantities that are specified in a quality order are automatically blocked from being issued.

For a given business process, the quality association record identifies the event and the conditions for which a quality order is generated. The conditions can be specific either to a site or to a legal entity. A quality order that involves destructive tests can be generated only when on-hand inventory exists for the event.

The following examples illustrate how a quality association record is defined for the variations in each business process. For each example, the following diagram summarizes the events and conditions that are defined by a quality association record.

The following table provides more information about how quality orders can be generated for specific types of processes.

Type of process	When quality orders can be automatically generated	When quality orders can be generated if destructive testing is required	Condition information	Manual generation information
Purchase order	Before or after a receipts list or product receipt for the material that is received is posted	After the product receipt for the material that is received is posted, because the material must be available for destructive testing	The requirement for a quality order can reflect a particular site, item, or vendor, or a combination of these conditions.	A manually generated quality order that refers to a purchase order can use information in a quality association record, such as the test sampling plan.
Quarantine order	Before or after the quarantine order is reported as finished or ended	Quality orders that require destructive tests cannot be generated. It is assumed that the quarantine order functionality handles the disposition of the material that is destroyed.	The requirement for a quality order can reflect a particular site, item, or vendor, or a combination of these conditions.	A manually generated quality order that refers to a quarantine order can use information in a quality association record, such as the test sampling plan.
Sales order	Before or after a picking list or packing slip for the material that is being shipped is posted	At any step	The requirement for a quality order can reflect a particular site, item, or customer, or a combination of these conditions.	A manually generated quality order that refers to a sales order can use information in a quality association record, such as the test sampling plan.
Production order	Before or after the finished quantity for the production order is reported	After the finished quantity for the production order is reported	The requirement for a quality order can reflect a particular site or item, or a combination of these conditions.	A manually generated quality order that refers to a production order can use information in a quality association record, such as the test sampling plan.
Production order that has a route operation	Before or after the report is finished for an operation	After the reporting production is finished for the last operation	The requirement for a quality order can reflect a particular, site, item, or operations resource, or a combination of these conditions.
Inventory	A quality order cannot be automatically generated for a transaction in an inventory journal or for transfer order transactions			A quality order must be created manually for an item's inventory quantity.

See also

Quality orders (form)

About inventory blocking