Quality Management in Materials Management 

Purpose

This process describes the interaction of Quality Management with Materials Management. It applies to all branches of industry.

You can learn about the functions of the R/3 application component QM in their basic form in this process. You should use this process as the starting point for the QM application and then look at the other, often industry-specific QM processes.

We recommend that you follow the suggested process flow. However, it is possible for you to run each of the processes individually.

You can find the data for this process under .

Process Flow

  1. Quality Management in Procurement and Storage

    2. Quality Management can be used to guide purchasing and inventory management activities. For the main part, it consists of releasing supply relationships, source and receiving inspections, managing stocks during quality inspections, and quality documents.

  2. Acceptance Inspection

    3. The detailed inspection lot processing scenario explains inspection planning, sample creation, printing of shop papers for inspectors, recording of inspection results - characteristic values and defect data -, and it describes how appraisal costs are settled.

  3. Quality Notifications as Complaints Against the Vendor

    4. You see how a defect determined in quality inspection is analyzed and documented in a quality notification. The measures required to correct the problem include a complaint against the vendor and the processing of returns.

  4. Quality Control

    5. Quality control includes vendor evaluation, quality analysis in the QM Information System, and statistical process control using control charts.

  5. Quality Management of Batches

    6. These processes show you how to inspect, classify, and monitor materials that are managed in batches.

  6. Quality Management in Sales and Distribution

Quality Management is linked to sales and distribution processes. Quality documents, quality inspections, and quality records can be controlled independent of customer and material.