The Final Random Inspection sequence, timed correctly.
A Final Random Inspection (FRI) is meant to be the last checkpoint before a shipment leaves the factory — valid once production is 100% complete and at least 80% of goods are packed, so the sample actually reflects what is going into the containers, not an early batch pulled out to make a good impression. Run it too soon, and the report describes a shipment that doesn't exist yet.
Done properly, an FRI covers more than surface appearance: quantity against the purchase order, random AQL-based sampling drawn from cartons across the batch — not the ones the factory sets aside — function testing, measurements against approved specs, and packaging, labelling and carton marking.
A well-run FRI report should let a buyer authorise shipment without ever seeing the goods in person. That's the whole point of it — and it's also the clearest test of whether an inspection was actually useful: if the report couldn't stand in for physically being there, the timing or the scope was wrong.
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