Findings

Definition

Describe deviations from the requirements.

Use

Deviations from the requirements may be observed during quality inspections or spontaneously. You can describe these deviations in findings. You can record findings in the following ways:

• Individual

  You create a finding for every individual deviation that has been observed.

• Summarized

  You enter the number of times a deviation occurred for predefined deviations, or describe the observed deviations in summarized form.

Structure

To allow the automatic valuation of findings, you describe findings using codes. These codes are stored in catalogs.

Every finding is associated with a finding type. This controls the following:

• The fields that are available to you for creating, changing, and displaying the finding.

• The fields that require an entry when you are creating a finding.

• The catalogs you can use to describe the finding and which of these catalogs is the master catalog.

  In addition to the name of the code, the following data is also copied into the data record of the finding from the master catalog:

  • Class of the finding

  • Valuation

  • Indicator that shows documents are assigned to the catalog entry

  During summarized recording of findings, the possible codes of master catalog are used.

• Which codes in a catalog are available for describing the finding based on a property value of the inspection document

• Whether you have to record the finding individually or in summarized form

You define the finding types in Customizing for the Quality Inspection Engine, under Define Finding Types.

Integration

In the inspection rule, you define the finding types that are available to you in the respective business processes.

A finding cannot be created without reference to an object. You can create findings for the following objects:

• Inspection document

• Inspection document item

• Sample