Material Inward to Dispatch
The complete manufacturing journey in a single flow. Material can enter the MES from three different sources, all of which converge at the same GRN Inspection. Once approved, it becomes a Batch or Work Order, moves serialized through the in-house operations, passes Final Inspection, and finally reaches Finished Goods. It is then dispatched to the customer — as a Customer Job Work Out for customer-supplied material, or on a Sales Invoice for company-owned (purchased or internally transferred) material. Quality control and traceability standards are identical regardless of how the material was sourced.
End-to-end process flow
Stage 1 — Material sources
Material enters from three sources, but the inward step is the only part that differs. Each ends with an entry on the Notification Screen.
| Route | Origin | Received via |
|---|---|---|
| Customer Job Work | Customer supplies the material | Job Work Inward DC |
| Supplier Purchase | Procured from an external supplier | Purchase / GRN Entry (against Supplier PO) |
| Internal Material Transfer | Produced by an in-house Foundry / internal unit | Internal Material Inward (via IMTO) |
Stage 2 — Shared quality gate
Every inward entry — whatever the source — appears on the Notification Screen and is inspected on the same shared GRN Inspection screen. On rejection the material is held / returned; on approval it is released for production as a Batch or Work Order, and the system generates Serial Numbers based on the defined Control Plan and traceability requirements.
Stage 3 — In-house manufacturing (sequential)
Operations run strictly in order — each can begin only after the previous one is completed, so the status of every serialized part is tracked throughout the production lifecycle.
| Step | Operation | Precondition | Traceability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Operation 30 | Batch created & serial numbers generated | Serial number assigned and linked to Heat Code |
| 2 | Operation 40 | Operation 30 completed | Serial + heat code carried forward |
| 3 | Operation 50 | Operation 40 completed | Serial + heat code carried forward |
| 4 | Final Inspection | All operations (30 → 40 → 50) completed | Full serial-to-heat-code history verified |
Any operation in the routing can be outsourced to an external supplier instead of running in-house — dispatched and received on Supplier Job Work Out/In DCs and validated by an Outsource Inspection. See the Supplier Job Work Process Flow.
Stage 4 — Completion & dispatch
Once Final Inspection is successfully completed and approved, the parts move to Finished Goods (FG) inventory. The outward transaction depends on how the material was originally sourced:
| Original source | Material ownership | Outward transaction |
|---|---|---|
| Customer Job Work | Customer-supplied | Customer Job Work Out — finished parts returned to the customer |
| Supplier Purchase | Company-owned | Sales Invoice — finished parts sold and dispatched to the customer |
| Internal Material Transfer | Company-owned | Sales Invoice — finished parts sold and dispatched to the customer |
In every case the parts are dispatched to the customer with complete production and quality traceability from raw material through to the delivered part — only the commercial document differs: a Job Work Out returns customer-owned material, whereas an Invoice sells company-owned material.