A permitted alternative, a manual count and a waiver have different evidence meanings. First check the frozen kit policy and the physical situation. Operator requests do not authorise their own exception merely by being submitted.
Approve an alternative
When an alternative needs approval, the station creates one pending request for that attempt, slot and component. Repeated offers reuse the request and count nothing.
The Supervisor opens Supervision, inspects the request and decides Approve or Decline after the required recent Accounts authentication. Check the exact component and slot rather than approving a similar-looking name. The ordinary native workflow can record a decision by the requester when they also hold Supervisor authority; it records that as self-decided, not independent review.
After approval, the Operator refreshes the kit and scans the alternative again. The approval lasts 15 minutes and is consumed once. Expiry requires another request. A release-permitted approved alternative can still produce a Verified completion, with its use and approval retained.
Decide a count or waiver
Use Request exception only where the frozen policy permits the kind requested. State the outstanding quantity and a useful reason. Manual counts cannot be used for serialised slots, and cannot exceed what remains.
The Supervisor checks the actual kit and reason before approving or declining. Approval creates a disposition satisfying the permitted quantity. It does not create part allocations, serial observations or evidence that a barcode was scanned. Any such disposition produces Completed with exceptions.
Return control to the station
Read the saved decision and current kit state. Tell the Operator what must now be scanned, captured or reviewed. A pending decision prevents completion. A decline or expiry is not permission to choose a different exception kind solely to finish.
If another person changed the attempt, refresh before deciding. If the response is uncertain, reconcile the original request and inspect the decision record. Do not submit another approval because the first answer was lost.
After completion, review the evidence page and result sheet to ensure the actual outcome is communicated. Keep exception details with the kit's handover and use the site's separate quality or dispatch controls where needed. KitProof's completion result does not perform those physical or commercial actions.