Editing the Inspection Setup

Use

You must edit the inspection setup to be able to create inspection lots for a material. Inspection lots are created for all goods movements that are relevant to QM. In the material master, you define which goods movements are relevant to QM.

In QM, you can plan an inspection and prepare all materials at this stage. You can assign suitable inspection types to each material and edit the inspection setup. However, you do not set the Active indicator at this stage. When you save the material, the data is assigned to the material. However, no inspection lots can be created at this stage. This is possibly only when you activate the inspection type in the inspection setup.

Note Note

If you change the inspection setup, this does not affect existing inspection lots. Only newly created inspection lots are affected by this change.

The system contains a program that you can use to activate an inspection type . This program allows you to activate the inspection type for all materials.

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Prerequisites

You must make various settings in Customizing for inspection types.

Procedure

  1. In the Quality Management view of the material master, choose Inspection setup .

  2. On the screen for editing the inspection setup, choose Create inspection types and enter the inspection types. If necessary, use the input help.

    By entering one or more inspection types, you define which inspections the material has to undergo, depending on the goods movements and how you plan to inspect.

    Note Note

    To activate a combination of inspection type and material for QM, you must set the Active indicator; only then is it possible to create inspection lots.

    Note that there must not be any inspection stock for the material when the first stock-relevant inspection type is activated. Otherwise, you must create an inspection lot for the inspection stock – the system takes the inspection type for this lot from Customizing.

    If you want the system to use an inspection type other than the one that is specified in Customizing under variant 01, you must set the Preferred InsTyp indicator.

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  3. Choose Check to check the data you have entered and to display details of the chosen inspection type.

    Note Note

    You use these details to influence the processing of the material during inspection processing and results recording.

    For each inspection type, you can predefine a number of indicators and values in Customizing. The system proposes these settings as default values in the inspection setup, but they can be changed.

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  4. If necessary, edit the following indicators and fields in the inspection type:

    Indicator/Field

    Additional Information

    Post to insp. stock indicator

    When a goods movement takes place, the quantity of the material to be posted is posted to inspection stock. If you do not set this indicator, the material quantity is posted to unrestricted-use stock.

    Insp. with mat. spec indicator

    The inspection is carried out according to the material specification. A material specification must have been created for this material when an inspection lot is created (at the latest).

    Insp. with task list indicator

    The inspection is carried out according to the material specification. A task list must have been created for this material when an inspection lot is created (at the latest).

    Insp. by configuratn indicator

    When inspection lots are created, the system takes into account the variant configuration from the sales order or production order. The inspection specifications from the task list or the material specification are supplemented or changed.

    The quantitative inspection characteristic with tolerances inherits the upper and lower tolerance value from the characteristic value in the variant configuration if no value range was specified. If a value range (interval) is specified in the variant configuration, the tolerance limits in the inspection characteristic are filled in accordance with the interval values in the variant configuration.

    To be able to work with realistic tolerance values, you can use the specification determination rules supplied by SAP in the master inspection characteristic. With the Business Add-In (BAdI) BADI_QASDR_MASTERCHAR_TO_INSP, you can implement and use your own calculation logic for upper and lower tolerance limits, depending on the characteristic values of the variant configuration.

    Inspect by batch indicator

    When inspection lots are created, the system takes into account the specifications that have been defined in batch determination. These specifications have precedence over those from the material specification or task list.

    Automatic assignment indicator

    The system assigns an inspection plan or a material specification automatically, so that the inspection lot can be made available without any further processing, (for example, without recording results). You can only set this indicator in conjunction with the Insp. with task list or Insp. with mat spec. indicator. The Manual sample calc. indicator should, however, not be set.

    Insp. by charac. indicator

    Results recording based on characteristics takes place. This is a prerequisite for dynamic modification based on characteristics. You can only set this indicator in conjunction with the Insp. with task list or Insp. with mat. spec. indicator.

    Smpl. procedure field

    Sampling procedure, according to which the sample size is to be calculated from the lot quantity. In addition, the sampling procedure defines the type of valuation that is used to record results. This field is only relevant for an inspection without a task list or material specification.

    100% inspection indicator

    An inspection of the whole inspection lot takes place.

    Inspection % field

    Percentage, according to which the total sample size is to be calculated from the lot quantity. This field is only relevant for an inspection without a task list or material specification.

    Manual sample calc. indicator

    You must trigger the sample calculation in the inspection lot manually. You can only set this indicator in conjunction with the Automatic assignment indicator.

    Manual sample entry indicator

    You must manually enter the sample size in the inspection lot. You cannot set this indicator in conjunction with the Insp. with mat. spec. indicator or the Insp.with task list indicator.

    Dyn. mod. rule indicator

    The dynamic modification rule defines inspection stages and the conditions that lead to an inspection stage change.

    Skips allowed indicator

    The system allows characteristics to be skipped when the sample size is calculated. If you do not set this indicator, at dynamic modification, the system chooses the next inspection stage that is not a skip.

    Automatic UD indicator

    The system can automatically make usage decisions for inspection lots when the corresponding program is run.

    Single-unit insp. indicator

    A single-unit inspection using serial numbers is activated for the inspection lot, provided that the material has been identified by a serial number profile as requiring serial numbers.

    Avg. insp. duration field

    You enter the average inspection duration in days. The start or end date for the inspection is then calculated at inspection lot creation using the start or end date and the inspection duration.

    Q-score procedure field

    Quality score procedure, according to which the quality score is calculated.

    Allowed scrap share field

    Allowable share of scrap for the quality score procedures that use the share of scrap to calculate the quality score.

    Control InsLot field

    You enter the conditions under which a single inspection lot is to be created.

    QM individual order indicator

    You can record appraisal costs for the combination material/inspection type in an individual QM order.

    QM order field

    Number of the QM order, in which the costs are to be collected. When the inspection lot is created, this information is copied into the inspection lot record, provided that no individual QM order has been created.

  5. To check the consistency of your data, choose Check again.

  6. If the entries are consistent, choose Continue .

    The Quality Management view of the material master reappears.

  7. Save your data.

See also:

Making Mass Changes to the Inspection Setup

Editing Inspection Setup Data Individually

Inspection Type for Automatically Created Lots