Serviceable inventory inspection

Inspection as serviceable results in the following changes:

• The inventory condition changes to ready for issue (RFI), or if an inspector inspects an incomplete item as serviceable, the inventory condition changes to RFB.
• If requested, Maintenix prints a serviceable part tag.
• If the inventory item is assigned to an on-order part request, and if the originating part request is a stock level replenishment, Maintenix changes the status of the part request to COMPLETE.
• If the item was requested in response to a different type of part request, Maintenix changes the status of the part request to AVAILABLE.
• Maintenix attempts to reserve the inventory. If the inventory is not reserved through auto-reservation, Maintenix creates a put-away transfer record so that the items can be stored in the warehouse (items appear on the To Be Shelved tab). If only a portion of the items in a batch are auto-reserved, Maintenix creates a put-away ticket for only the remaining items.
• The item is immediately available to the baseline synchronization process. After you inspect the item as serviceable and update all inventory records, depending on your permission settings, you might need to set the inventory item to allow manual synchronization.
• If an inventory item is received from an internal location such as a repair shop, Maintenix treats the situation as the inspection of a newly-repaired item, and creates a new turn-in transfer record with the destination of serviceable staging. The transfer record is displayed on the storeroom clerk's To Do List, Turn In tab.
• For items that have not been inspected before, an INSP (receive inventory) financial transaction is recorded.
• For newly received items, the quantity increase is recorded.

The following conditions prevent inventory from being inspected as serviceable unless the ALLOW_AUTO_COMPLETION configuration parameter is set to true. This parameter is used to speed up inspection of inventory particularly when received from repair vendors – when inspectors accept warnings and inspect as serviceable, open tasks, faults, and work packages are automatically completed. The impacts of enabling this parameter are wide-ranging.

• You receive a repaired part from an external repair vendor along with paper work documenting the work that was done, but in Maintenix, there's still an IN WORK work package for the item with open tasks and faults. Someone with the correct permissions must manually complete the open tasks, faults, and work packages.
• The inventory has overdue tasks and faults. You can't inspect the item as serviceable until overdue tasks and faults are manually completed.
• The inventory has open faults with a severity of AOG or UNKNOWN (severities that cannot be deferred with deadlines).
• The inventory has less usage or time remaining before a task is due than is required in order to release the item from maintenance as serviceable. (The minimum is specified in a task definition).
• The quantity of an item received on a shipment is greater than the quantity ordered on the purchase order. The extra items are automatically quarantined and cannot be inspected as serviceable. If you decide to keep, instead of return the extra items to the vendor, the purchase order must be edited to change the order quantity to the received quantity. The PO must be re-issued, and possibly re-authorized (depending on the change in dollar amount for the PO). After the PO is re-issued, you can inspect the extra items as serviceable.
• The inventory is in REPREQ condition.

If the ALLOW_AUTO_COMPLETION configuration parameter is set to true, inventory with all of the above conditions can be inspected as serviceable.