Microsoft has introduced Quality Management capabilities in Dynamics 365 Business Central 2026 Release Wave 1 / Version 28.

This feature helps businesses manage quality inspections for purchasing production, assembly, and warehouse processes. As per Microsoft, the Quality Management extension helps organizations improve product reliability, support compliance requirements, and perform quality checks at key operational points.

Why Quality Management?

Quality Management in Business Central is useful when companies need to inspect goods or materials before they are used, sold, transferred, or consumed.

Some common scenarios include:

• Quality inspection after purchase receipt
• Quality inspection after production output
• Quality inspection after assembly output
• Manual quality inspections
• Scheduled quality inspections
• Quarantine or blocking of items until quality approval

Microsoft confirms that quality checks can be triggered from purchase receipts, production output, assembly output, manual checks, or scheduled checks.

Important Point for Upgraded Environments

Quality Management is available as an extension in Business Central.

For newly deployed Business Central v28 environments, the extension is installed automatically.

For upgraded environments, such as environments upgraded from version 27 to version 28, you need to install the extension manually from AppSource.

Benefits

The main benefits of Quality Management in Business Central are:

• Better control over incoming and outgoing quality
• Reduced manual tracking outside the ERP system
• Improved inspection visibility
• Better traceability of quality results
• Support for compliance and audit requirements
• Improved coordination between purchasing, warehouse, production, and quality teams

Conclusion

Quality Management in Business Central v28 is a valuable addition for organizations that need structured inspection and quality control processes.

It helps businesses manage quality checks directly inside Business Central instead of relying on manual spreadsheets or separate systems.

Thanks for reading! 😊

Regards,
Khushbu Rajvi