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With the Quality Inspection Engine (QIE), you can integrate quality inspections in various SAP solutions in the mySAP Business Suite, as well as in non-SAP applications. The QIE supplements the comprehensive existing quality management solution supplied by mySAP Product Lifecycle Management (mySAP PLM) and was designed for use in a heterogeneous system landscape. The QIE is service-oriented and thereby supports new processes, such as the execution of inspections using decentralized Warehouse Management in mySAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM).

Implementation Considerations

If your enterprise does not use mySAP PLM or mySAP Enterprise Resource Planning (mySAP ERP), which both provide comprehensive quality management functions, you can use the QIE as a lean solution to support quality inspections. If you already use quality management in mySAP PLM or mySAP ERP, you can still use the QIE for inspections in heterogeneous system landscapes (for example, if you are using decentralized Warehouse Management in mySAP SCM), or for performing inspections in new application areas. In comparison to quality management in mySAP PLM, the QIE offers additional functions providing greater flexibility when performing dynamic modification and when configuring inspection rules.

Consumer systems use the QIE to perform inspection processes. End users are not even aware that the QIE is being used.

As the QIE is not part of the application component, it has no knowledge of the business logic of the application component.

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Features

Consumer systems can use the following functions:

  • Customizing (sampling schemes, dynamic modification, document types, decision codes, samples, findings, print control, and optimization of search queries)

  • Processing of master data (inspection rule, sample-drawing instruction, and quality level)

  • Creation of inspection documents and samples (manual or automatic for goods movements)

  • Processing of inspection documents (document search, documentation of inspections with specifications, findings, and inspection decision), samples, and items

  • Archiving of inspection documents with all dependent data

  • Change document description, that is, displaying changes

  • Printing of inspection documents

Constraints

The QIE does not have a dedicated user interface. All interfaces are called up by the consumer system.