Nonconformity Costs 

Creating a QM Order

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Logistics ® Quality Management ® Quality Notification ® Change

    Transaction Code

    QM02

  2. On the initial screen, enter the number of the notification you last processed and choose Notification.
  3. Choose Order.

    4. After the notification data has been saved, the system creates a QM order as a cost collector for the nonconformity costs and assigns this to the notification. In the order you can, for example, enter material withdrawals from the warehouse or error correction services. You can evaluate them later using controlling functions.

  4. Choose .
  5. Choose Notification.
  6. Choose Notification ® Functions ® Order ® Display.
  7. Make a note of the order number for the QM order.
  8. Choose until the overview tree appears.

Entering Nonconformity Costs

Use

You now enter the expenses for the defects analysis. An employee from cost center 4280 worked on defects analysis for 2 hours. The nonconformity costs are collected and periodically evaluated in cost center 4400.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    From the Quality Notification node, choose Costs ® Actual Postings ® Activity Allocation ® Record

    Transaction Code

    KB21N

  2. If necessary, enter the company code 1000 in the dialog box and choose .
  3. Enter the following data:
    4.

    Field

    Data

    Scrn variant

    Order

    Sender CCtr

    4280

    SAtyTyp

    1421

    Rec. order

    Number of your QM order

    Total quantity

    2

    UM

    H

    Text

    Expenses for defect analysis

  4. Choose .
  5. Choose until the overview tree appears.

Cost Report

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    From the Quality Notification node, choose Change

    Transaction Code

    QM02

  2. Enter the number of the notification you processed last and choose Notification.
  3. Choose Environment ® Cost report QM order.

    4. The system displays the summarized cost report. You can expand the line items in the list and then you can display the associated individual documents.

  4. Choose until the overview tree appears.

Settling a QM Order

Prerequisites

Your QM order has NOT been settled automatically. If your QM order has been settled automatically, the system issues a notification. Continue with the Cost report of the cost center.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    From the Quality Notification node, choose Costs ® Actual Postings ® Settlement ® Individual Settlement

    Transaction Code

    KO88

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Data

    Order

    Number of your QM order

    Settlement period

    Current period

    Fiscal year

    Current year (default)

    Test run

    Deselect

  3. Choose .
  4. Choose until the overview tree appears.

Cost Report of the Cost Center

Use

If automatic order settlement is activated, the accumulated costs of the QM order are sent straight to the quality assurance cost center 4400. You can display all of the cost actual postings that were settled by this cost center.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Accounting ® Controlling ® Cost Center Accounting ® Information System ® Reports for Cost Center Accounting ® Line Items ® Cost Centers: Actual Line Items

    Transaction Code

    KSB1

  2. Choose Extras ® Set controlling area.
  3. Enter the following data:
    4.

    Field

    Data

    Controlling area

    1000

  4. Choose .
  5. Enter the following data:
    6.

    Field

    Data

    Cost center

    4400

  6. Choose .

    7. The system displays a list of all cost documents including costs and services.

  7. To display the source document, select the line and choose Document.

    8. You see the settlement document created during service entry.

  8. Select the document line item and choose .

    9. The detail screen for service entry appears.

  9. Choose .
  10. Choose until the overview tree appears.
  11. In the dialog box, choose Yes.