Hello Julie,
We have implemented basic batch management functionality in Business ByDesign in the May and August 2013 (1305 and 1308) releases. But batch characteristics, batch determination, quality inspection or certification based on batch characteristics are unfortunately not in scope.
If you consider characteristics / properties – for the product requirement specification (PRS) functionality – properties are included as part of the functionality in Business ByDesign.
But we don’t have in our Quality Management process characteristics inspection and generation of certificates of analysis.This is supported in the Business Suite SAP QM module.
So my answer in brief: Business ByDesign currently doesn’t support Certificate of Analysis in the Quality Process and the earlier workaround communicated in 2011 should still be good.
Are you in the Pharma or Chemicals industry? This seems to be a customer requirement there.
Kind regards,
Douglas Kisinger Thompson
Support by SAP Cloud KM