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Maintain Settings at Plant Level

In this step, you can change and supplement several central controlling functions at plant level:

These controlling functions relate to the planning and implementation of quality inspections; for technical reasons they are collated in one table. The functions you want to use for quality inspections determine which settings are relevant for your requirements. Read the online documentation to familiarize yourself with the meaning of the fields in this table.

Requirements

To be able to make comprehensive settings for the functions you want to use, you must have maintained the following master data and Customizing tables:

• Master data

If you want to record quality costs, you need
controlling areas,
cost centers and
order types for appraisal and nonconformity costs.

Note

: You can post quantities that have been been scrapped or were destroyed in a quality inspection to a particular cost centers on the basis of value and can enter these cost centers in the table. You can inidiviually set the corresponding inventory postings at the usage decision . The account determination in materials management must be set accordingly, so that the update of values for the corresponding goods movements takes place correctly. In particular, the account modification must be set to check , to ensure that account assignment to the cost center you entered and for the offsetting entry in financial accounting is active.

Recommendation

• Initially, use the standard settings from plant 0001 for all plants. Check these default values when processing the appropriate sections of the Implementation Guide.

• Contact your accounting and inventory management department concerning the required settings for cost settlement.

Activities

Check the standard settings before you enter the productive phase and then make your final settings for the default values. Coordinate these settings with all affected plants.