inward inspection: dimensional accuracy, correct documentation for incoming goods/materials, importance of release and advice notes, faults that may arise in documentation and storage of incoming goods, methods of checking for faults in documentation, spot checks, random checks; sampling (quarantine inspection) in terms of: importance of release and advice notes, the reason for clear, identification of materials with relevant batch numbers, procedures to be followed before batch material is released into stores in accordance with storage recommendations – tests to be applied, identification of acceptance/rejection criteria and the recording procedures involved, remedial action to be taken when components/materials prove defective