Testing and Signing Off Plan-to-Produce

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Plan-to-produce sign-off card

• Baseline: BJ5 (make-to-stock discrete) plus BEI (plant period-end) and BJN (rework); add J45 for bought-in components.
• Add Contoso variants: shortages, scrap, rework, quality at receipt, second plant, period-end.
• Planning expected results: proposals, quantities and dates calculated from frozen inputs.
• Execution expected results: status, movement type, stock and value per step.
• Costing expected results: actual costs, credit at standard, variance by category, settlement account.
• Evidence chain: planned order → production order → material documents → confirmations → inspection lot → settlement.
• Rate defects by supply, inventory value and control impact; quantify per document and per month.
• Critical and High block sign-off unless owners accept a documented workaround with owner and end date.
• Package: coverage, results, evidence index, open defects, accepted risks, reconciliations, signatures.
• Signatories: process owner for the plant, finance for costing, quality for inspection.