Business Central - Blocking External Operations Until Previous Operation Quality

Your requirement is to stop the next subcontracting operation until the preceding operation’s inspection is approved. Microsoft’s Quality Management extension provides production-output inspection generation and inventory/transaction blocking, but those capabilities alone do not establish that every subsequent routing operation is gated.

Inspection status and result are separate. A PASS result can still belong to an Open inspection; Finished is a separate state. Microsoft documents “Allow finished only,” result-based transaction restrictions, and workflows that block lots on inspection creation and unblock them on passing completion.

In a sandbox, configure the production inspection rule and test the exact subcontracting posting path with open, failed and finished-passed inspections. Include purchase receipts and production journals used in your process. If the next operation can proceed, have your partner implement or select an extension that validates the predecessor inspection at those posting points. Third-party quality statuses and enforcement depend on that add-on’s documented behavior.