A printed instruction that contains all the information that you need to draw one or more physical samples from an inspection lot. The information in the sample-drawing instruction is generated on the basis of the data in the inspection plan and sample-drawing procedure.

You use the sample-drawing instruction to determine how to process the physical samples in the inspection.

The system prints out the sample-drawing instruction automatically when an inspection lot is created (provided the function for an immediate printout was set in Customizing for Inspection type).

The sample-drawing instruction contains the following information:

• Header data, plant, inspection lot, inspection lot text, inspection plan, document number
• Physical-sample drawing
• Physical sample confirmation requirement (yes/no)
• Sample-drawing procedure and long text stored in header of sample-drawing procedure
• Sample-drawing item and long text stored for the sample-drawing instruction
• For each sample-drawing item, a list of physical samples to be drawn:

• Physical sample categories (primary, pooled, and reserve samples)
• Keys for physical-sample records
• Physical sample container
• Quantity of each physical sample with unit of measurement
• Which physical samples are used to create the partial samples
• Partial samples in the inspection plan (partial-sample number, operation number, sizes, and units of measure)

• Distribution of physical samples to work centers or laboratories