Material Specification 

Purpose

In the Quality Management (QM) component, you can inspect either based on an inspection plan, or (with certain limitations) based on material specifications that are valid on a company-wide basis.

In such an inspection, the specifications from the material specification are used as the inspection specifications. In contrast to the inspection plan, the material specification is a specification that you can use for all plants, that is easier to maintain, and that can replace or supplement a plant-specific inspection plan.

Integration

Depending on the settings in Customizing, you define which class characteristics are to be valuated with the results of the inspection, by assigning master inspection characteristics to class characteristics In addition, this allows you to use the intervals that have been defined in the batch classification as inspection specifications.

When an inspection lot is created, the system copies the master inspection characteristics from the inspection plan and material specification into the inspection lot. The inspection specifications from the material specification take precedence over the inspection specifications in the inspection plan.

Features

Constraints

Note the following when you use a material specification in an inspection:

To download data using the IDI, you must always use a work center. However, since you cannot predefine work centers in the material specification, but the inspection specifications are defined in the material specification, you must proceed as follows:

          1. You create a material specification with master inspection characteristics.
          2. You create a dummy inspection plan that only contains one operation with one work center.
          3. In the inspection setup (Quality Management view of the material master), set the indicators Insp. with task list and Insp. with mat spec.