Completing a Stability Study (SAP Library

Completing a Stability Study

Use

When you complete a stability study, you bring the study to a close (typically after all stability tests have been performed as originally planned). The system then responds as follows:

It sets the user status COMP (completed) in the stability study, which is documented as a task in the notification. This status cannot be revoked and it prevents any other user statuses from being set in the study.

It locks the testing schedule.

It locks all physical samples that belong to the study (initial sample and all stability samples).

You can only complete a stability study once.

Prerequisites

You can only complete a stability study if no open test dates are pending in the testing schedule (for example, dates that have not been called, confirmed, or skipped).

Procedure

From the SAP Easy Access menu, choose Logistics ® Quality Management ® Stability Study ® Stability Study ® Change.

The initial screen for changing a stability study appears.

On the initial screen, enter the key of the stability study you want to process and then choose Enter.

The screen for changing the stability study data appears.

In the action box on the right side of the screen, choose the follow-up function Complete Stability Study.

A dialog box appears asking you whether or not you want to complete the stability study.

Choose Yes.

The dialog box is closed and the change screen for the stability study reappears.

Result

The testing schedule and all physical samples belonging to the stability study are locked and the status COMP is set in the stability study. All inspection lots created for the study that are:

Not being processed and have not been completed, must be cancelled

Being processed must be completed by means of a usage decision (that is, any open inspection characteristics in the lot must be forcibly closed when you make the usage decision)

As a final step, you can print out the storage removal list for all stability samples and remove the stability samples by means of a follow-up function in the stability study, or you can create reserve samples.