You create a list of materials with outstanding purchase orders and scheduling agreements (with no goods receipt posted or inspection lot created), which are scheduled for source inspections at the vendors. A source inspection is initiated and supervised by the customer, ordering party or his representative. A source inspection can be carried out by:

• The party receiving the goods or services
• The vendor, in the presence of the recipient
• A third party empowered by the recipient

When the system generates a worklist for source inspections, it only considers materials and vendors for which:

• Quality information records exist (these records specify a source inspection as the inspection type).
• The inspection type has been defined and activated in the material master record.

When you generate a worklist for source inspections, the system considers a period during which the inspection must be performed (including the lead time defined in the quality information record).

You can use the job planning and execution functions to trigger a source inspection automatically at predefined intervals.