How to Control Inspection Lot Creation

This article explains the setting required to control Inspection Lot creation for Purchase Order / Production Order or Process Order.

In the material master > QM view of the material, click on Inspection type and the following pop-up screen will open.

The field “Control insLot” controls the behavior of Inspection Lot creation.

• For each purchase order item, batch and storage location – only one inspection lot gets created. Even if there are multiple Goods Receipt on the purchase order line.
• For each material document, material, batch and storage loc. – for each partial GR a new inspection lot is created, even if the batch is the same.

The following screen shows the settings for a Production Order / Process Order.

• Early lot creation for the order item – It means when a process / production order is released an inspection lot is created. This setting is particularly useful if there are in-process inspections.